Kansas wildlife experts are asking people to be on the lookout for two rare species of birds in the Sunflower State. The ...

The species of Ebola virus causing an outbreak in Congo that has killed nearly 120 people is less common than other Ebola ...

A large wildfire has burned nearly a third of Santa Rosa Island in California’s Channel Islands National Park — an area home ...

Scientists in Australia are using cutting-edge DNA techniques to help save one of the world’s rarest marsupials — the critically endangered Gilbert’s potoroo, with fewer than 150 left in the wild. By ...

The whales join a small but growing group of animals, including great apes, magpies, and cleaner wrasse fish, who share "this ...

According to officials, the action was carried out on the basis of specific intelligence inputs regarding wildlife ...

Botanist Steve Perlman risks dangerous climbs and remote expeditions across Hawaii to protect some of the world’s rarest ...

Snakes are common and widespread reptiles, inhabiting most areas of the world, from deserts and forests to wetlands and coral ...

Imagine a long, glossy black snake gliding silently through sandy forests — so secretive that most people may never glimpse ...

Led by Scott Evans, assistant curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the American Museum of Natural History, it draws on ...

A new study indicates that the adaptable birds evolved into distinct lineages as isolated populations shifted to match their ...