The four types of venomous snakes native to Kansas all share the same distinctive physical feature, a heat-sensitive pit in ...

The journey to recovery was long, complex, and in some ways unprecedented, but has achieved an unthinkable success of ...

One of the birds that laid eggs was born at the Cincinnati Zoo, which played a key role in the decades-long project.

Conservationists are working to increase access to environmental education in Milwaukee so students of color can connect with ...

On Rossel Island, Kraus found Dendrelaphis melanarkys, or the black net tree snake. This 4-foot, 11-inch reptile is easier to ...

Catherine Cruz reports on the sihek, an endangered bird that recently returned to the wild and laid eggs at their new Pacific ...

The intriguing new species, spanning around four feet and one inch in length, was found to have a "matte black" coloring.

A once-extinct bird has laid eggs in the wild for the first time in nearly 40 years. After returning to the wild in 2024, the ...

Herpetologist Fred Kraus discovered a new arboreal snake species, Dendrelaphis atra, on Misima Island in Papua New Guinea.

The Sihek is among the most endangered bird species in the world. For the first time in almost 40 years, recently released ...

The birds were eliminated when the invasive brown tree snake was accidentally introduced to the island of Guam in the ’40s.

The Guam kingfisher is no longer found in Guam, but thanks to the help of a handful of zoos, including Cincinnati's, there's ...