"All whooping cranes today are descended from only 14 adults remaining on the Texas coast in 1941", he added. Thanks to decades of legal protection, habitat restoration and cross-border collaboration, ...

A record number of whooping cranes — 557 — were spotted this winter around the Texas coast, the highest count ever recorded ...

Camp Mystic was overrun by flash flooding that started on Independence Day. Rapidly rising waters ripped through the ...

What are you seeing?” I asked two women standing along the edge of a swamp, binoculars pointed into the distance.

The Wilder Institute’s Archibald Biodiversity Centre greeted its first whopping cranes hatched at the facility on May 28 — coincidentally, Whooping Crane Day.

Similarly, juvenile whooping cranes learn migration routes from experienced adults or, in conservation reintroduction programs, from ultralight aircraft that serve as surrogate guides.

Chick-rearing supervisor Marianne Wellington dons a crane costume and teaches Fizzgig, a baby whooping crane, how to survive in the wild at the International Crane Foundation headquarters.

Since 2011, a state program began reintroducing whooping cranes into a conservation area in Southwest Louisiana at a time when the birds were nonexistent in the state.

Last week, after studying photographs and measurements of the tracks, Professor Rowan announced that the baby crane tracks gave proof that the area is a nesting ground for the whooping crane—the ...

Baby foxes are most often called “kits,” but they're also known as cubs, pups, or whelps. Here are few facts that will make you want to squeeze one right now. Precociality and altriciality are fancy ...