The Bourneo Orangutans have been labelled as "critically endangered" as their populations continue to fall. (GETTY) The death of the last female Yangtze giant softshell turtle last weekend has put the ...

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

Imagine explaining to your child what a rhino looked like — not from memory, but from a photograph. That grim possibility is closer to reality than most people realize. Scientists estimate that Earth ...

(Gary Braasch / Corbis) When Polynesians arrived at the uninhabited Hawaiian Islands thousands of years ago, they found an array of colorful tree snails, each less than an inch in length, across the ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. We’re losing species at an alarming rate. Could freezing the genetic material of the world’s most endangered animals help save them? Biotech ...

Penned by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, the dissent takes jabs at threatened slugs for not having feelings while envisioning a world where the ESA has nothing to do with protecting endangered ...