Audubon Aquarium Rescue is caring for four sea turtles that came into contact with oil in local waters. The turtles include ...

Wildlife experts are pleading with boaters to slow down after four endangered leatherback sea turtles were killed in recent ...

Decades after nearly going extinct, the world’s only existing population of Asiatic lions is overrunning a small reserve in ...

Every year, thousands of cold-stunned sea turtles are rescued from U.S. coasts by a remarkable network of people and ...

Iran has recorded a jump this year in its official number of Asiatic cheetahs, a subspecies, now found only in Iran, that has ...

Populations of bowhead whales were able to hide from hunters under ice, a new study finds, saving them from extinction. But ...

Imagine this: A snake-like creature as long as a bus glides through the sea—on the hunt. Sounds like a nightmare? Fortunately, it remains just that, as this animal has long been extinct. Fossils of ...

Scientists are in a race against time to document and safeguard the diversity of lizards that live on the island and its ...

As border wall construction accelerates, ecologists are cataloging wildlife on both sides of the international boundary and ...

Does an elephant really need to be that massive? Why aren’t there any giant insects? Why did animals in New Zealand evolve to ...

As well as revising the taxonomy of this giant octopus, researchers were able to use this newly identified, well-preserved ...