Vulnerable species — and the impact of the facility on their habitat and well-being — are at the core of a legal fight.

It’s the ominous slogan for “Hotel California,” an iconic fictional lodging dreamed up by the Eagles in 1976. One of the rock ...

Experts at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute care for endangered species on 32,000 sprawling acres in Northern ...

There are several distinct traits that make mammals different from other animals, with the most significant ones being that they’re warm-blooded, have either fur or hair, and usually give birth to ...

Two conservation groups have pushed back on an August court decision to overturn and remand the listing of the lesser prairie chicken on the U.S. endangered species list. Last month, a federal judge ...

The Earth is currently experiencing its sixth major extinction event. One million species globally are at risk of extinction in the next few decades, including 27 percent of the world’s mammals, 41 ...

Populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said ...

We're used to thinking of giraffes as one species. Turns out, there are actually four distinct species of the world's tallest mammal.