Why Louisiana chose the black bear in 1992, a reminder of habitat loss, recovery efforts, and the link between wildlife and ...

Scientists have finally solved a decades-old mystery with the first-ever live encounter of a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale.

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

Scientists recently discovered a new species of green anaconda in the Amazon rainforest. A new Nat Geo series shows the ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

Last August, the Mazama newt — an amphibian species found only in Crater Lake — moved into the Oregon Zoo’s conservation lab ...

Sulfur butterflies glide across Zorrillo Canyon, hundreds of them, moving back and forth against the cerulean sky. It's ...

The United States on Monday reached a deal with Dominica to start sending foreigners seeking U.S. asylum to the small Caribbean nation.

The Scarlet Macaw that thrives in the dense forests of Belize are among the most prized birds in the world. Their impossibly ...

PHILADELPHIA — Members of the U.S. Marshals Eastern Pennsylvania Violent Crimes Fugitive Task Force transported from Belize a woman wanted on charges of animal cruelty in Bucks County and turned her ...

A woman who, police claim, fled to Belize last year and abandoned over 100 animals at a Bucks County farm, leaving them to starve and allowing several to die, has been returned to police custody in ...