Two conservation agencies filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to finalize federal protections for monarch butterflies.

Can Ben Lamm save the planet? He thinks so. Short, stocky and unassuming with a puckish sense of humor, the shaggy-haired Dallas-based entrepreneur seems more like the brainiac in the back of class ...

Canada’s rarest mammal was on the brink of extinction but, in a remarkable conservation success story, it is on the road to recovery ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

What may sound like a spa day for frogs is all part of a global effort to fight the chytrid fungus — the deadly pathogen responsible for what scientists have called the largest disease-driven loss of ...

Whether it's redfin pickerel in the Kennebec River or sturgeon in the Great Lakes, nearly one-third of freshwater fish ...

A newly revealed U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service document allows Catron County ranchers to kill any one endangered Mexican ...

The proposal has not yet been finalized. Officials propose disturbing new measures that could drive the world's most endangered marine mammal to extinction: 'A real threat to the future' first ...

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New Zealand conservationists have been fighting for years to keep the kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, from disappearing, with intensive conservation efforts.

The kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, was once deemed a biological paradox – too heavy, too slow, and too appealing ...