"We're not just here to showcase animals." Experts celebrate first-ever birth of vulnerable species in wildlife reserve: ...

Researchers face a race against time to document the species. Scientists stunned after finding new lizard species deep inside remote caves: 'Newly discovered populations' first appeared on The Cool ...

Both sharks and rays have similar life history traits that make them vulnerable to overharvesting. Read more at ...

Amphidromous fish—which migrate between freshwater streams and the sea—can move between habitats thanks to ocean currents.

Birds-of-paradise have captivated the planet with their elaborate plumage and idiosyncratic mating dances. Some species ...

Eastern monarch ­butterflies doubled in population. According to a new report, the butterflies occupied 4.42 acres in central Mexico’s forests over the winter, up from 2.22 acres the previous ...

Fireflies are harbingers of sweltering midsummer heat, but the regional renaissance is tied to conditions in the spring.

The predator was once widely seen in forested areas. Habitat loss, lack of prey and poaching are key contributors to the loss of leopards, experts say.

A proposal on Endangered Species Act has some conservationists in Connecticut alarmed rollbacks could endanger vulnerable species in state.

For 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has provided bedrock legal protection for nature’s most vulnerable, including 1,684 plant and animal species native to the United States and the ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing a change to the Endangered Species Act that environmental groups say will kneecap habitat protection and lead to extinction of vulnerable ...

Among the wildlife experts that helped form the list includes a group of researchers in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Connecticut ...