The rare and ancient gharial, with its distinctive long snout, faces critical endangerment in northern India's rivers. Unlike crocodiles, gharials are gentle giants crucial for river ecosystem health.

A critically endangered species has hatched at the Fort Worth Zoo for the second year in a row in “a massive conservation achievement,” zoo officials said in a news release Wednesday. The hatching of ...

The Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), whose range extended through the Indian subcontinent is now extinct in Burma and Pakistan, close to extinction in Bangladesh, and is limited to few large rivers in ...

Rising global temperatures have been linked to several critical climate issues, such as an increase in extreme weather events and melting Arctic ice sheets. But a new study has flagged higher ...

BHUBANESWAR : Gharial conservation in Odisha has taken another leap forward with birth of 29 more crocodile babies in the freshwaters of Mahanadi river this year, making it the fifth consecutive ...

The Bronx Zoo’s wild animal keeper sends out a special call, and eight of the most critically endangered animals on earth take a break from basking to scoot up the banks for their breakfast. The young ...

Pilibhit: Climate change is emerging as a major threat to India's critically endangered gharial, even as Uttar Pradesh marks 50 years of Project Crocodile on Crocodile Day with the largest population ...

The Fort Worth Zoo is celebrating another conservation success with the hatching of critically endangered gharial crocodiles for the third year in a row. Zac Foster, supervisor of ectotherms, stands ...

BHUBANESWAR: After a gap of four decades, breeding of the endangered gharial species has been witnessed in the fresh waters of Mahanadi river in Satkosia gorge. PCCF (Wildlife) Sashi Paul said that at ...

The bulbous-nosed reptiles were in critical decline until conservationists stepped in As the sunlight pierces the fog, a fisherman on a boat floating along the Gandak River in Bihar, India, spots a ...