Tropical forests are massive biodiversity storehouses. While these rich swathes of land constitute less than one-tenth of Earth’s surface, they harbor more than 60% of known species. Among them is a ...

An endangered owl breeding program in Canada allows visitors to name rats after their exes before the rodents are fed to ...

including 27 percent of the world’s mammals, 41 percent of amphibians, 37 percent of sharks and rays, and 21 percent of reptiles. This loss is driven by human activity, including habitat destruction, ...

It may surprise you to learn that several species of rabbits and hares are among the most endangered mammals on Earth. Out of 63 wild species, 22 are considered near threatened to critically ...

Every spring, Mexican long-nosed bats traverse a lengthy migratory path north from Mexico into the southwestern U.S., ...

Of the 36 fecal samples, 17 percent contained long-haired rat tissue. The endangered rodents are endemic to the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa Prefecture. Three percent of the samples ...

According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the global authority on species' conservation status, one out of four of the world’s mammals and over 40 percent of amphibians are ... Bears, ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service protected jaguars as endangered in 1972. But in 1980, responding to objections, the Service removed jaguars within the United States from the endangered species list ...