A small percentage of species protected by the law have ever recovered, but an even smaller fraction have gone extinct. With ...

According to the Center for Biological Diversity, which petitioned the service to protect the snake, the southern hognose ...

Two conservation groups have pushed back on an August court decision to overturn and remand the listing of the lesser prairie chicken on the U.S. endangered species list. Last month, a federal judge ...

When Gray Skipper set out to conserve thousands of acres of his Alabama timberland, he never imagined being met with a ...

The first species on Earth were far from humans, but somewhere along the line, animals have taken a backseat to mankind's development. Pushing creatures out of their homes, hunting them down, and ...

Experts at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute care for endangered species on 32,000 sprawling acres in Northern ...

For the first time since 1999, New York's list of endangered and threatened species has been updated, bringing state protection to a migratory shore bird, a bat and a prehistoric fish, which can all ...

New Jersey is celebrating an animal conservation milestone decades in the making. On Monday, Jan. 6, the state's Department of Environmental Protection announced that Gov. Phil Murphy's administration ...

In June 2024, seven freshwater mussels native to Central Texas were added to the endangered or threatened lists. That ...

The tallest animal in the world is in trouble.Giraffe populations are declining at such an alarming rate — from habitat loss, poaching, urbanization and climate change-fueled drought — that U.S.

Mill Creek, the only home of the endangered Nashville crayfish, stands in the path of The Boring Company's proposed Music ...