Conservation

Large predators hunting in habitats where humans pushed them out are no longer anomalous, according to scientists.

Cataloguing the genetic data of 1.5 million known species will take 10 years, cost approximately $4.7 billion and require the cooperation of scientists, governments and students from around the world.

Is Tony the Tiger helping or hurting real tigers?

The dolphin is still in critical condition.

The species is "heading for catastrophe."

The Danger Islands are cold and treacherous, but dang if they don't have a ton of penguins.

"Esmond was one of conservation's great unsung heroes," Save The Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton said.

Amur tigers have the personal backing of Vladimir Putin.

If their status changes, protections for the leatherbacks could be reduced.

The alarming problem jeopardizes the world's largest population.

One account said this was the worst animal welfare violation she'd ever seen.

Breeding endangered animals is part of a zoo's "species surival plan."

"This really is a worst-case scenario."

Despite legal protection, North Atlantic right whales keep getting struck accidentally by fishing boats and entangled in gear.

In the Russian Far East, scientists thought they had spotted a tiger flee shelter from the snow, possibly spooked by a much smaller female leopard sleeping inside.

Conservation, restoration and better land management will help a lot more than scientists previously understood.

The scientists hope they weren't interrupting a courtship session.

More than half of North Atlantic Right Whale deaths since 2009 were from becoming entangled with nets.

The exact cause is still a mystery, though a prime suspect has been named.

Before, there were six nonhuman great apes. Today there are seven.

eBay has hundreds of listings for taxidermy bats, and Etsy has nearly a thousand.

What at first looked like roaming sheep turned out to be a massive herd of polar bears.

This giant rat is gold-colored, a foot and a half long, and was just a rumor among scientists for decades.

It turns out we don't really have a clue what they're saying—despite their using only one call.

Sea turtle populations seem to be on the rebound after decades of work.

The video was shot in November last year and has just been released after expert analysis.

"This has had catastrophic ramifications on the right whale population, this number of whales being killed when we only know of three calves being born this year."

Baculovirus forces its caterpillar host to climb up trees before it bursts out to infect others on the ground below.

This provides a means of sexing them.

Donald Trump may be cutting funding to the environmental sciences, but one near-endangered butterfly is thriving.