More than 225 trawlers will be fitted with Queensland government-owned cameras over the next six years to monitor the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service settled federal litigation over the species’ plight. But the wood stork will lose its ...

Forty years ago, wood stork populations in Florida were plummeting. But federal and private efforts have made a dramatic difference, officials say.

Tourists from Morocco and India are familiar with such scenes: A snake charmer plays the flute, a cobra rises from its basket and seems to move to the rhythm of the music. But do snakes really dance ...

Lawyers for conservation groups, Native American tribes and the states of Oregon and Washington returned to court Friday to seek changes to dam operations on the Snake and Columbia Rivers, following ...

The 11 imperiled South Florida species face extinction-level threats from habitat-destroying development and sea-level rise, ...

The process of skin shedding is called ecdysis and takes place repeatedly throughout a snake’s life. They literally slide out of their old skin, leaving it behind in papery shreds in which you can see ...

Populations of Michigan's only rattlesnake, the eastern massasauga, are showing the negative effects of inbreeding in ...

Deep in the coastal woods of South Carolina, behind high fences, guard dogs, and security cameras, is a group of people who ...

A study by the Center for Biological Diversity published today in the peer-reviewed journal PeerJ found that 2,204 species around the United States should be considered for protection under the ...

In an unassuming building at the San Francisco Zoo, 115 brilliantly colored baby snakes are being fattened up on a diet of worms. These are endangered San Francisco garter snakes and during a visit in ...