The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

Some animals matter so much to their ecosystems that losing them is like removing the keystone from an arch—the entire ...

California lawmakers are advancing a measure to empower the state to bypass federal decisions and list endangered species under emergency state protections. What supporters hail as a safeguard against ...

The world still holds its secrets. Hidden under wet rocks, in the ocean’s twilight crevices, and in the minutiae of the ...

Endangered water voles in Wales are being fed edible glitter in a bid to save them from extinction. Once commonly found across south Wales, water voles are now effectively extinct in all but a few ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals. Paleontologists aren’t easily deterred by evolutionary dead ends or a sparse fossil ...

In a significant step for conservation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has proposed listing the eastern hellbender salamander as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA ...