Endangered species

More Australian plants and animals have been added to the government's endangered lists or have had their urgency upgraded.

Feral horses pose an immediate extinction risk to native species in the Australian Alps and New South Wales ...

On June 14, the California Fish and Game Commission elevated the greater sage grouse to a candidate species, ...

On two tiny patches of reef in Tasmania a bizarre walking fish with over-sized jazz hands and a ...

An expert committee that decided not to list an ancient fish as critically endangered last year may be ...

The U.S. Senate narrowly approved two resolutions on May 11, both on 51-49 votes, that overturned the Biden ...

Concerns over drones monitoring native endangered species of Australian gliders in Victoria appear to have been overblown after ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Feb. 6 issued a notice of intent to sue two Biden administration ...

Rep Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) is demanding an end to offshore wind activity in New Jersey after an ...

The New South Wales government has announced that Lord Howe Island (LHI), home to over 33 threatened species ...

Researchers at Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, announced that the Chinese paddlefish, often ...

China’s agricultural and fishery authorities in 2003 began imposing an annual three-month fishing ban in the Yangtze River ...

There is so much beauty on the planet worth protecting, but sometimes such a large idea can seem ...

Commentary According to a new United Nations report, “around 1 million species [out of 1.8 million known species] ...

Joe Howlett, a 59-year-old veteran fisherman of Campobello Island, New Brunswick, was killed moments after rescuing an entangled ...

Since first being listed as endangered, the manatee population has rebounded to over 6,600 individuals.

For more than half a century, dolphins have been helping the U.S. Navy to find mines or enemies ...

Animal species are disappearing at an alarming rate. Some are calling the current trend Earth's sixth mass extinction.

Pangolins are found in Asia and Africa.

Biologists found out there are actually four different giraffe species instead of just one.

Ever heard of a baiji? It used to be a freshwater dolphin living uniquely in China's famous Yangtze ...

Have you seen the cute lemur video? There's a high chance. After all, the video has been played ...

A petition that seeks "justice for Harambe," the 17-year-old gorilla that was shot and killed at the Cincinnati ...

Global wild tiger population numbers are increasing for the first time in a century.  According to the World Wildlife ...

This is an incredible story about the bond between humans and animals—even ones in the wild. (tip: fast ...

Radiocarbon dating of atomic bomb fallout found in the shells of sea turtles is a reliable way to ...