Human beings are the greatest threat to the survival of endangered species, as we are the ones destroying their natural ...

The ivory-billed woodpecker, along with 22 other species of birds, fish, mussels and other wildlife, is set to be declared extinct and removed from the endangered species list, US wildlife officials ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

A team of researchers set out to find a tiny minnow everyone assumed was gone forever. They trekked to a remote river in eastern South Africa, cast their nets, and pulled up a dozen little fish that ...

For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living fossils. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North America; ...

Researchers identified a new freshwater fish species in South Africa after years of genetic testing and analysis. Zoosystematics and Evolution Zoosystematics and Evolution A team of researchers set ...