In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No, this photo-bombing pachyderm is not an apparition, a phantasm or a spooky specter. He is the only African forest elephant to ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

While headlines focus on bringing back the woolly mammoth, the most significant impact of this research lies in its immediate benefits for endangered elephants and other threatened species alive today ...

Every two years, the state of New Mexico reviews a list of critters it considers either threatened or endangered from climate ...