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 ...

Thirty-six species found in New York are protected under federal legislation signed more than 50 years ago.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

The Barbary macaque is legally protected in Algeria; however, crop losses could increase hostility toward the species if ...

Last week, The Guardian dropped the news that this common, bright blue and black garden-dweller could be extinct within the next 30–40 years thanks to climate damage. It is quite frankly terrifying ...

Would you like to see a real, live wooly mammoth? Or how about a Tasmanian tiger in the flesh? Scientists have already finagled a few ways to resurrect extinct species from their evolutionary graves.