Under the new federal guidelines, inadvertent deaths of endangered animals are no longer considered illegal ...

Several endangered species in the U.S. have recovered from their endangered status thanks to federal protections.

An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

The Trump administration has upended protections for thousands of endangered species by redefining the words "take" and "harm ...

Brett Hartl, the government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said the move "stabs at the very heart ...

A wildlife explorer ranks supposedly extinct animals based on how likely he personally thinks they are to have survived ...

Biology professor Megan Davis explains why weakening the Endangered Species Act threatens the queen conch.

For the first time ever, scientists recorded a sea turtle laying eggs on a beach on the U.S. West Coast. A fence was erected around the eggs of the olive ridley turtle. By Cynthia Silva The ruling ...

A September 2026 directive from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service means unintentional killings of protected species may no ...

When you think of extinct animals, you might go to a saber-toothed cat, or the infamous dodo. But there are, unfortunately, a lot more recent animals that have gone the way of that ill-fated bird. And ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...

Would you like to see a real, live wooly mammoth? Or how about a Tasmanian tiger in the flesh? Scientists have already finagled a few ways to resurrect extinct species from their evolutionary graves.