Why large numbers of reptile species face extinction and what that means for our ecosystem. Globally, about 20 percent of reptile species are facing the threat of extinction. That ...

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

It used to be considered against the law in America to starve a member of an endangered species to death or harm it by ...

Sadly, the Earth abounds with endangered creatures, but there's new hope for one endangered bird which hasn't been seen or ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

California is taking legal action to preserve the Endangered Species Act, which has helped save condors and sea otters from extinction A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Forest Service to halt a ...

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

Pennsylvania officials are reviewing five species for the endangered and threatened species list while tracking invasive ...

With the administration of U.S. Donald Trump moving quickly to roll back endangered species protections, some U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill to support and improve species recovery efforts.

There’s never a particularly good time to be an endangered species, but as times go, right now is really, really bad.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...