An environmentalist group filed a federal lawsuit against the federal government Friday for violating an agreement to kill urban prairie dogs on behalf of Commerce City, where plague has been found in the ground-dwelling mammals..
Read moreThe Trump administration said Friday it will issue a permit to let a Michigan man import the skin, skull and horns of a black rhinoceros he shot in Africa last year.
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A zoo in Berlin is celebrating the arrival of two panda cubs, the first time one of the rare mammals has given birth in Germany.
Read moreThe Alliance for the Wild Rockies sued the U.S. Forest Service in federal court, claiming it illegally approved the 10.6-square-mile Hanna Flats logging project in grizzly bear habitat in Panhandle National Forest.
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Russian border guards have seized more than 4,000 endangered wild tortoises after they were smuggled out of Kazakhstan, officials said.
Read moreA trio of wildlife groups sued the federal government Tuesday seeking a new environmental analysis for what they claim is an outdated wildlife killing program targeting thousands of native carnivores including coyotes and foxes in 10 Northern California counties.
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The oldest known DNA to ever be recorded was recently discovered in the dung of a prehistoric puma, according to a study published Tuesday.
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Scientists have created the first gene-edited reptiles: albino lizards.
Read moreThe regulator of global wildlife trade will impose a near-total ban on sending African elephants captured from the wild to zoos after a final vote on the issue on Tuesday.
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A trade ban is looming for two endangered otter species after some 100 countries voted to increase protections following a social-media-fueled craze for acquiring the silky mammals as pets.
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Wildlife-supporting countries on Thursday backed regulating international trade in giraffes in a bid to offer more protection to the gentle giants, feared to be facing a “silent extinction.”
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Amid growing alarm over accelerating extinctions, a major international conference opened in Geneva Saturday aiming to tighten rules on trade in elephant ivory and other endangered animal and plant species.
Read moreTaking their time like the proverbial tortoise, federal prosecutors are said to have brought charges against a man who was spotted three years ago laying 1,000 turtle traps outside downtown Atlanta.
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For most of his life as a Samburu warrior, Lesaiton Lengoloni thought nothing of hunting giraffes, the graceful giants so common a feature of the Kenyan plains where he roamed. But fewer amble across his path these days: in Kenya, as across Africa, populations of the world’s tallest mammals are quietly, yet sharply, in decline.
Read moreAfter a rare live stranding, officials euthanized a beached humpback whale Thursday after he was unable to ride three successive high tides back out to sea.
Read moreScientists in New Zealand said Wednesday they’ve found fossilized bones from an extinct monster penguin that was about the size of an adult human and swam the oceans some 60 million years ago.
Read moreA married couple sued Flagstaff and the Arizona Game and Fish Commission in Coconino County Court, claiming a law that bars the feeding of wild animals on private property caused them emotional distress.
Read moreWashington state’s rules allowing corporate timberlands to use traps, bait and dogs to kill bears are legal, a judge ruled Friday, even though voters banned those exact methods decades ago.
Read moreThe National Park Service plans to shoot a few elk native to California in a park near San Francisco, a move that has angered some environmental groups that accuse the agency of putting cattle ranchers ahead of the needs of preservation.
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A Spanish nature conservation center says that the first baby lynx has been born in the Pyrenees in nearly a century.
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