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

Two historic sea turtle nests discovered in Southern California have been confirmed to belong to two different endangered ...

Centuries of demand for hawksbill shells built empires of decorative treasure, and even a global trade ban has not stopped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kemp's ridley is the smallest and most endangered sea turtle. Cold-stunning events are further threatening their species.

Marine scientists have been amazed to discover an endangered sea cucumber can live for decades, with some animals living more ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

During the Early-Middle Devonian period, a large landmass called Gondwana—which included parts of today's Africa, South America, and Antarctica—was located near the South Pole. Unlike today's icy ...

This is either bad news with a silver lining or ominous good news, depending on how you look at it. After centuries of being hunted, shelled, eaten, and generally destroyed by colonial greed and ...

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 ...

On a spring morning so blustery that the National Weather Service issued a small craft advisory, a Samish Indian Nation research boat, called the Chinook (Yómech), set out from Anacortes, Washington, ...

Inadvertently killing endangered animals while logging a forest or building a dam would no longer be considered illegal under a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act by federal officials, ...