Black market dealers sell around 13,000 of this species a year for food despite legal protections, according to reports.

Before humans ever walked the planet, Earth was home to some of the strangest and most terrifying creatures in history — and we narrowly missed sharing the world with many of them. From 10-foot terror ...

The slaty-masked tinamou, found in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry.

Wildlife Conservation Day was established for the world to embrace wildlife conservation as a united front to save species ...

Environmentalists say the proposed rollbacks could threaten the lives of sea cows through habitat loss, pollution and ...

Conservationists are hoping to strengthen regulations at a wildlife trade conference on birds, reptiles and other animals ...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora on Friday updated its regulation and monitoring of several iconic shark and ray species ...

Discover the 12 countries with the most threatened species worldwide, based on IUCN Red List data. Explore biodiversity hotspots facing severe habitat loss and ecological pressure.

Unlike other giant species, which reached their peak size during the Miocene before dying out and getting replaced by smaller ...

Oxford researchers map the evolution of the kiss and conclude that mouth-to-mouth contact likely arose in a common primate ancestor 16.9-21.5 million years ago.

"Likely a wandering individual." Experts stunned as trail cameras capture footage of creature that vanished for 200 years: ...

In honor of Wildlife Conservation Day, these organizations are fighting for the world's most endangered habitats, and could ...