For the first time in over 30 years, the Santa Barbara Zoo is celebrating the birth of two red panda cubs. There are ...

The Mangshan pit viper, a rare and highly venomous snake confined to a handful of mountain forests in China’s Hunan and ...

Across much of the Indian subcontinent, a small fox moves through scrubland, open plains and dry grass country with little ...

When a species starts disappearing from the places it used to live, that decline can be an early warning of something more serious to come. A new study has confirmed that link more rigorously than ...

Brazil’s environmental agency approved oil drilling off the mouth of the Amazon River, even though oil company Petrobras considers it “unfeasible” to rescue large animals like manatees in the event of ...

Climate change is pushing two iconic Antarctic species — the emperor penguin and the Antarctic fur seal — toward the brink of extinction, a new assessment finds. The new listings, published Wednesday ...