Nearly 200,000 people have signed a petition calling on U.K. multinational Jardine Matheson to cancel its plan to expand ...

Evolution has produced a steady stream of now-extinct terrifying creatures, but if they were around today, some could destroy ...

There's a lot of monkeying around at the Philadelphia Zoo these days now that the newest white-handed gibbon is growing up.

For the last 50 years, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, has been the highest authority governing the market for endangered species. Since ...

This, of course, led researchers to believe that the species had gone extinct. However, the same Cool Down article reports how — to the extreme delight of the country’s scientists — locals ...

Extinction is still forever, but scientists at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are trying what they say is the next best thing to restoring ancient beasts — genetically engineering ...

On a night in 1997, Benjamin Dauda killed a gorilla for the first time. Shrouding his lanky frame in dark fog, he stalked a ...

Their status is now critically endangered, demanding our immediate attention ... You can say that they are one of humans’ closest cousins and the largest ape. When talking about species, we can ...

This fact sheet explains the 4(d) rule and how we suggest monarch butterflies and caterpillars continue to be handled by educators, citizens, and scientists if protected under the Endangered Species ...

In the 1970s, scientists thought black-footed ferrets were extinct, but a twist of fate, and an unprecedented breeding effort led by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, brought this critical piece ...

This is an update to our previous story. Our original coverage can be read below. An Endangered Missing Advisory (EMA) has been activated for a 2-year-old boy by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.