National Endangered Species Day (on May 20) is observed globally to spotlight the planet's most vulnerable animals. From ...

The committee has approved an exemption to endangered species protections for just the third time in its history ...

An endangered red ruffed lemur gave birth to an adorable set of triplets — Red, Marjorie and Taylor — at the Wild Adventures Theme Park in Georgia on April 25. “Parents Val and Doug are doing great,” ...

The bald eagle, American alligator and Louisiana black bear are just three of the nearly 300 species revived by the Endangered Species Act -- 50 years since it first took affect. The Endangered ...

More than 40 years since the end of commercial whaling, research reveals an increase in sightings of whales in the ...

Threats from deforestation, pollution, hunting, and climate change are contributing to the extinction of endangered species.

A three-acre Susquehanna River island shelters some of Pennsylvania’s most threatened bird species. Wade Island, a part of ...

The Hattiesburg Zoo hosted a special event Saturday for the first time to highlight the plight of threatened animal species ...

Smithsonian scientists discuss the impact of the first federal law designed to save endangered and imperiled animals from extinction. Mike Bock Kirtland’s warblers were among the first animals to ...

A freshwater mussel found in parts of the Rio Grande is at the center of a new legal fight. The Center for Biological ...

A Washington tourist faces federal charges after prosecutors said he threw a rock toward Lani, an endangered Hawaiian monk ...

Lonesome Larry became a symbol of one federally protected species.