PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the rarest whales on the planet has continued an encouraging trend of population growth in the wake of new efforts to protect the giants animals, according to scientists ...

The Iowa skipper butterfly, once common in U.S. prairies, faces extinction due to habitat loss and pesticides.

The vast American wilderness holds many secrets, and sometimes those secrets include animals that science says shouldn't be ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out ...

The world we share with countless species is growing smaller, and for some, it’s already too late. Over the past century, ...

Prioritizing which animals and plants to help is driven mostly by whether we like them or not. Some experts say that may not ...

This summer, the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and The Wilds released a total of 116 rare and endangered giant salamanders into ...

Since 2012, over 2,000 hellbenders have been released in the state by the Columbus Zoo and The Wilds, with over 350 having ...

Wildlife officials in Ohio have announced that 116 rare and endangered eastern hellbenders were released into the state’s waterways this summer, marking an important conservation milestone for the ...

Alamosaurus, the largest land animal to ever roam North America, has long been a subject of fascination for paleontologists.

More than a quarter of all animals, plants and fungi assessed are at risk of extinction, according to the latest IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

As well as having long-lasting consequences for Native Americans to this day, the bison population of North America was ...