A young northern hairy-nosed wombat was filmed at an Australian refuge, signalling progress in species recovery efforts.

A critically endangered critter has been sighted on a farm in the middle of nowhere. The central rock rat is one of Australia's rarest animals, and experts feared it had gone totally extinct a few ...

With each passing year, species across the United States face an uncertain future. As habitats continue to be destroyed, ...

This social, whistling rodent is only found in Washington’s Olympic Mountains. Here’s why Fish and Wildlife is considering ...

In the dark hours after midnight, a tiny endangered mouse foraged its way through a matrix of subterranean pipes at the abandoned Nike Missile Base in Key Largo. Little did it know that a massive ...

India’s fragile dugong population is showing signs of stability, with a new Wildlife Institute of India (WII) study ...

The Vangunu giant rat is a species that exists only on one of the Solomon Islands. Local residents had deep knowledge of the rat, which researchers had never seen alive. With the help of the ...

How easy it will be for Burmese pythons to travel to and take hold in North Carolina? Ten years ago, Mike Cove (NC Museum of Natural Sciences) discovered Burmese Pythons were behind the decline of the ...

CEDAR FALLS - A University of Northern Iowa graduate student is being recognized for her dedication to what some people consider winged nuisances. For the past few years, Sarah Benedict, 22, spent her ...

WASHINGTON— A new Environmental Protection Agency evaluation finds rodenticides are harming more than 130 endangered species and pushing at least 73 toward extinction. The analysis released Friday ...