The Mangshan pit viper, a rare and highly venomous snake confined to a handful of mountain forests in China’s Hunan and ...

Some fireflies species are in trouble, but here’s why they won’t completely disappear – and simple ways you can help save ...

With their killer instinct and feline prowess, the big-cat family represents some of the world's most impressive animals. All ...

With a bulging head that looks like it swallowed a gavel, there's no mistaking the animal: It’s a hammerhead shark. Across the globe, there are more than nine hammerhead species, many of which are ...

Amy Scott, host of the podcast "How We Survive," reports on a company that's working on de-extinction innovation to try and ...

A research team at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is urging the scientific community to reform how it uses genetic technologies for wildlife conservation ...

In the humid jungle of Vietnam, Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela and Monte Neate-Clegg spent hours patiently waiting to spot the rare ...

We can’t protect what we do not know, and now that we have confirmed that this other species of pangolin exists, we can use ...

With bright feathers that look painted on, colorful birds are typically pretty and charismatic poster species for ...

As a Massachusetts town is locked in a dispute over flying American flags to protect endangered shorebirds, a nonprofit is ...

Pangolins, which look like a cross between an anteater and a pinecone, are the most-trafficked mammals in the world. In a new ...

Pangolins have armored bodies covered with overlapping scales that protect the mid-sized mammals that are native to parts of ...