National Endangered Species Day (on May 20) is observed globally to spotlight the planet's most vulnerable animals. From ...

WASHINGTON— In a sweeping assault on the nation’s imperiled wildlife, the Trump administration today proposed a suite of regulations that would dismantle the Endangered Species Act and drive hundreds ...

In honor of National Endangered Species Day, discover several important and fascinating species at risk of extinction.

Tick. Tick. Pzzzz. The song of the Florida grasshopper sparrow is unusual and surprisingly insect-like. But it almost fell silent forever. In 2012 National Geographic Explorer and Photo Ark founder ...

USFW Biologist Darek Elverud holds a rare Razorback Sucker that his crew momentarily took from the river to gather information during an outing on the Colorado River on Aug. 16, 2016 in Grand Junction ...

While growing up in California in the 1980s, Winifred Frick never saw a condor in the wild. The population of North America’s largest bird, Gymnogyps californianus, had dwindled to nearly zero by 1987 ...

This was an Animal House — literally. A Long Island man was slapped with thousands of dollars in fines after authorities discovered 100 animals, including a South African ostrich and other exotic and ...

"The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel California: Once a species enters, they never leave," Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum wrote Cover Images via AP Images; Getty ...

New Jersey has reclassified 30 wildlife species found in the state as endangered or threatened, environmental officials announced this week. The new additions to New Jersey’s endangered species list ...

Threats from deforestation, pollution, hunting, and climate change are contributing to the extinction of endangered species. In the US, threatened and endangered species are protected under the ...