Lonesome George was a celebrity tortoise. Millions of humans made the pilgrimage to see him while he lived, and his death was international news. Why? He wasn't particularly large for a Galapagos ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — They are hunted for their unique scales, and the demand makes them the most trafficked mammal in the world. Wildlife conservationists are again raising the plight of ...

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Up to 2 million plant and animal species worldwide are in danger of extinction, a new analysis suggests. The International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List reports that 19% of European ...

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

Freshwater life is vanishing at a pace that now rivals, and in some cases exceeds, losses on land and at sea. New global assessments show that roughly a quarter of animals that depend on rivers, lakes ...

A new study suggests the endangered large-spotted civet is heading toward local extinction in Cambodia’s Srepok Wildlife ...

On one of the final days of 1938, a fishing trawler off the coast of South Africa reeled in a massive creature unlike anything the crew had seen before. It was nearly five feet in length, and its fins ...

A nod of thanks to Professor Curt Stager, whose article in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise moved me to write this letter to the ADE. I wrote the majority of the following as a post in my Facebook page ...