Last weekend, a woman was mauled by a lioness at Darling Downs Zoo in Queensland, and lost her arm. The zoo, which keeps nine ...

Doc Antle was sentenced to prison for trafficking endangered animals and laundering over $500,000. He also must forfeit three ...

While the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park are best known for rare and endangered animals such as giant pandas, koalas and ...

When an animal moves from the endangered species list to being officially extinct, it's undeniably a sad day. The creature ...

Among the wildlife experts that helped form the list includes a group of researchers in the Department of Natural Resources ...

The animals trafficked — baby chimpanzees, cheetahs, lions and tigers — are all protected under both the Endangered Species Act and international treaties. The Lacey Act prohibits the trafficking of ...

From prehistoric predators to forgotten giants, some extinct species still have what it takes.

The sanctuary’s closure came after the California Department of Fish and Wildlife opened a criminal investigation over ...

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human ...

Tiger King” star Bhagavan “Doc” Antle has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for illegally buying endangered ...

Paul Scofield, a project adviser and senior curator of natural history at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, ...

Many conservationists dedicated to protecting the endangered Andean cat have never seen one in the wild, with the species ...