It turns out this state we’re in is a hotspot for ancient fossils! With just a sifter, a trowel, and a sense of curiosity, ...

The United States’s Endangered Species Act (ESA), signed into law in 1973, has helped revive the populations of nearly 300 species.

According to the U.S. Fish Wildlife Service, the Endangered Species Act exists to protect threatened or endangered fish, wildlife, and plants. Enacted back in 1973, it aids in the recovery of such ...

Conservation is about the ecosystems that species define and on which they depend. Conservation is about finding alternative, sustainable futures for peoples, for forests, and for wetlands.

At most coral reefs, the team encountered a “common” species known as Capillaster multiradiatus, or the many-rayed feather star, on their daytime scuba dives. But off the island nation of ...

U.S. officials proposed Monday to protect the pangolin, a small, nocturnal mammal covered in scales, under the Endangered Species Act. The pangolin is “the most trafficked mammal in the world ...

U.S. officials proposed Monday to protect the pangolin, a small, nocturnal mammal covered in scales, under the Endangered Species Act.The pangolin is “the most trafficked mammal in the world ...

Two species of suckermouth catfish were collected in the researchers’ nets, according to the study, and their unique characteristics combined with genetic analysis proved their place as new ...

The fourth African species, Temminck’s pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), also called the ground pangolin, is already listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.