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Conservationists are testing out drones that will help them monitor wild animals like snow leopards and zebras from far above ...

The United States is moving to grant federal protections to the monarch butterfly -- a once-common species recognizable by ...

In 2022, researchers collected caterpillars off a plant in the arid highlands of the Andes Mountains of Chile, then patiently waited to see what they became. Two months later, adult moths, mostly ...

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Although the lower 48 states now have more grizzly bears than it did in the 1970s, biologists and environmental groups argue ...

For a decade only native red squirrels lived on Wales' Anglesey island, following a massive cull of their invasive grey cousins. But now the greys are somehow getting back across the Menai Strait.

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The state is home to nine packs and about 70 wolves, marking a triumph for nature but a challenge for ranchers ...

By Shannon Lukens. (File photo from Colorado Parks and Wildlife of a wolf being released in Colorado in Dec. 2023.) ...

A new pack of endangered grey wolves was recently confirmed in Northern California, on the border of Lassen, Plumas and ...