The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed on Thursday to list the eastern hellbender, a type of salamander in Tennessee and ...

The call took them to a warehouse in Shahrashti, where they found nearly 1,000 endangered turtles at the center of an ...

Once found in tropical oceans around the world, the largetooth sawfish’s range has shrunk by an estimated 60 percent in a ...

Xenops: A small bird found in Central and South America, Xenops is known for its distinctive foraging behavior, often seen climbing tree trunks in search of insects and other food sources. Xantus's ...

The boggy landscape of the Bering land bridge may have allowed some ice age animals to cross easily, while others stayed in ...

That’s the saltwater side of the Shedd Aquarium’s new “Wonder of Water” centerpiece beneath its rotunda — part of $250 ...

A pivotal history of Earth lies submerged beneath the Bering Sea.

Wild hogs can weigh over 150 pounds and measure 5-6 feet long. They’re a non-native, invasive species and usually can be found in a wide variety of habitats such as oak and cabbage palm hammocks, ...

The new entrance exhibit in place of the former Caribbean Reef is part an ongoing renovation leading up to the aquarium’s ...

The vulnerable waters and freshwater fisheries of British Columbia’s lakes and rivers are under threat from whirling disease.

Fentanyl -- an opioid that is 100 times more potent than morphine -- was detected in the tissues of 18 of the live dolphins ...

Researchers have been fascinated by animals’ ability to create such huge variety from two simple building blocks, but until now there was no satisfactory explanation for this wealth of crystals in the ...