The IUCN Red List, which assesses the extinction risk of species, lists over 100 bird species as extinct since 1500. Sadly, ...

Vultures have an image problem. Seen as ugly and associated with death, they are among the least loved animals in the world.

The Hawaiian Electric Company says it will continue to take steps to collect seabird flight information to develop its Maui ...

This week, a Texas-based biosciences company, which aims to “de-extinct” animal species of the past (and ones that will go ...

Dr. John Waldrop was fined $900,000 and sentenced to three years of probation in one of the largest Endangered Species Act ...

Urgent action is needed to protect endangered species, human health and industry from the impacts of the Caspian Sea ...

A Georgia orthopedic surgeon and a farm worker have been sentenced in what federal authorities are calling one of the largest ...

While that fashion trend thankfully came to an end, kagus have continued to face threats, with predation by dogs and other introduced animals, as well as habitat loss, all causing numbers to decline.

The schiribilla bird of the Galápagos Islands was observed by Charles Darwin in 1835 but has been missing ever since — until ...

New research suggests conservation efforts could more effectively identify and protect bird species at greatest risk from ...

The species' hyper-specific jack pine habitat was in the path of the ice storm, but DNR officials say it was left mostly unscathed.

An Alabama man was one of two people sentenced in connection to what authorities called the largest-ever bird mount ...