While most of us will have heard of gray wolves – and the political rollercoaster that is their protection status in the US – ...

The Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged frogs were almost wiped out of Yosemite National Park. But these scientists mounted a wildlife comeback.

Scientists are on the verge of bringing extinct animals like the woolly mammoth, Pyrenean ibex, and Tasmanian tiger back to ...

Bear Lake buckwheat, an extremely rare subspecies of plant that only grows on a tiny sliver of land in Southern California, ...

Black-footed ferrets, also known as American polecats, are carnivorous relatives of weasels with dark patches ... one million ...

In a "groundbreaking achievement," a clone of an endangered species of ferret has given birth to babies for the very first ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct ...

Scientists say the births of two ferrets are the first time a cloned endangered species has reproduced in a conservation ...

North America’s only ground-dwelling owl ... About 20 years ago, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rejected a bid to protect the ...