Endangered species are animals that are at risk of disappearing forever, typically animals with dangerously low population numbers, shrinking habitats and a loss of geographic range. There are animals ...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia Zoo visitors usually can’t get too close to the animals, but now they are encouraged to touch and even climb and play on some of them. Zoo officials are ...

A Florida zoo is celebrating its first birth of 2026 - an endangered animal. See what it is and the adorable photos, video.

These three species—with some help from humans—have beaten the odds. Conservation efforts such as reforestation, habitat protection, and improvements to water quality are paying off big time.

Washington, DC—The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced a proposed rule today to list the Atlantic humpback dolphin under the Endangered Species Act, in response to a 2021 petition filed ...

OLYMPIA, Wash — Oregon State University researchers made the scientific confirmation of two shark species previously undocumented in the Puget Sound: the broadnose sevengill shark and the critically ...

"I'm all for conservation," Frank Ribelin, a landowner outside Austin, Texas, told U.S. News & World Report two decades after passage of the Endangered Species Act, "but I'd like to club the little ...

ORLANDO, Fla.—The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will consider tightening protections on the West Indian manatee after concluding that a petition demanding that the animal’s endangered status be ...