Several endangered species in the U.S. have recovered from their endangered status thanks to federal protections.

An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

Nature already made its decision. The woolly mammoth, the saber toothed tiger, the dodo bird, all of them were judged by climate, by predators, by shifting ecosystems, and in many cases by us. They ...

Penned by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, the dissent takes jabs at threatened slugs for not having feelings while envisioning a world where the ESA has nothing to do with protecting endangered ...

A September 2026 directive from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service means unintentional killings of protected species may no ...

We human beings belong to a very exclusive group of animals. There are only four types of "great apes" in existence today, those being humans, chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas. As the name "great ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colossal Biosciences, the company that produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves, is expanding to a half-dozen species that it ...