South Padre Island is a barrier island located in the Gulf of Mexico, off the southern coast of Texas. It is a popular ...

Recovering animals that are nearing extinction, like the black-footed ferret, was the whole point of the 1973 Endangered ...

On a small island off the coast of Vietnam, a cow herder paused near a rice field and noticed a brown and yellow creature hidden under the grass. He picked up the animal and decided to keep it as a ...

The Trump administration's proposal to change the definition of the word “harm” in the Endangered Species Act could bring ...

Staff at the Florida Keys’ Turtle Hospital in the middle keys released a green sea turtle back into the wild on Earth Day.

Four critically-endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise babies made their debut at the Philadelphia Zoo on Wednesday, April 23.

Rockalina was an adult eastern box turtle living in the wild when she was taken into a New York home in 1977. When a reptile ...

Four McCord’s snakeneck turtles, a species found only on Indonesia’s tiny Rote Island, have hatched at Wrocław Zoo, the park ...

South Carolina is home to a lot of alligators. Around 100,000 of them, to be exact. Although it is fewer than in some states, such as Florida, which has 1.3 million alligators, there are still many ...

Cater's Lake redesign project continues, and water is being removed from pond, posing a threat to some animals and raising ...

Wildlife trafficking is a multibillion-dollar industry and the fourth-largest organized crime worldwide, per the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It's rampant in Mexico, with one study by the ...

A newly discovered population of endangered turtles found only in a small collection of Queensland waterways is not only ...