Several endangered species in the U.S. have recovered from their endangered status thanks to federal protections.

Under the new federal guidelines, inadvertent deaths of endangered animals are no longer considered illegal ...

An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

The Trump administration has upended protections for thousands of endangered species by redefining the words "take" and "harm ...

Sept 21 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump has scaled back regulations meant to protect endangered wildlife as part of a broader push to reduce permitting obstacles for energy, mining, agriculture ...

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...

When you think of extinct animals, you might go to a saber-toothed cat, or the infamous dodo. But there are, unfortunately, a lot more recent animals that have gone the way of that ill-fated bird. And ...

“Really an assault on the act like we’ve never seen before,” a law professor at Harvard University who previously worked for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...

Would you like to see a real, live wooly mammoth? Or how about a Tasmanian tiger in the flesh? Scientists have already finagled a few ways to resurrect extinct species from their evolutionary graves.

Brett Hartl, the government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said the move "stabs at the very heart ...