"It represents the culmination of over a decade of dedicated effort." Wildlife officials take historic step to release ...

A critically endangered species of shark could be forced to adapt to new habitats—or face extinction—as a result of changes ...

Up to 2,000 of 56,000 species of the country’s flora and fauna remain critically endangered and vulnerable to extinction, ...

Only about 50 Apennine brown bears remain in the wild, and new research sheds light on a key challenge to their survival. The ...

A critically endangered butterfly that lives in the southernmost part of Florida thrives in certain years. Researchers turned ...

London Zoo is celebrating the birth of 33 Darwin’s frogs, following the zoo’s urgent mission to rescue the critically ...

For decades, conservationists have pushed for changes to U.S. 64, a busy two-lane highway to the popular Outer Banks that ...

A zoo in East Sussex is celebrating the birth of a critically endangered monkey ... The macaques are one of over 20 different endangered and rare species living at the East Sussex animal park.

In a press release issued this Wednesday, the Center for Biological Diversity said that Taal Levi, an associate professor of wildlife biology at Oregon State University and a collaborator on the ...

Two critically endangered penguin chicks that were born in a zoo have been "thriving", keepers said. The black-footed penguins, named Pudding and Humbug, were born at Banham Zoo, Norfolk, in December.

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