The Sumatran rhino is down to fewer than 100 animals, including this female, Rosa The future of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino has been struck a blow, with the death of Malaysia's last male.

Kembali — one of the zoo’s seven Sumatran orangutans — was caught monkeying around an area outside of his brand-new outdoor orangutan exhibit Thursday, leaving staff scratching their heads ...

“Sometimes I feel like I’ve chosen the most difficult thing in the world to study,” Cheryl Knott tells me as we sit beneath the rain forest canopy at her orangutan research station in ...

With only a few hundred left in the wild, the continued survival of the Sumatran tiger is jeopardized by relentless poaching and habitat loss. Gland, Switzerland - Indonesia is set to lose its ...

A Sumatran tiger cub born at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park last month is in its mother’s care and may make a public appearance in several months. The cub, born Aug. 23 to first-time mother ...

A Sumatran tiger cub was born at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The birth is part of the zoo's ongoing conservation effort. Hurricane-prone states The day in pictures Get the USA TODAY app Start ...

Scientists have decoded the genome of the Sumatran rhinoceros - one of the most threatened mammals on Earth. Its genetic blueprint shows that populations have been in decline for a very long time.

BINTAN ISLAND, Indonesia — Ever since Munsa was a young man, he would quietly paddle a small boat past the mangroves on Air Glubi Island into the Kawal Sea armed with a harpoon. “Anyone can ...

Sumatran tigers are native to Sumatra and are currently critically endangered, with less than 400 estimated to be in the wild, according to the International Tiger Project.

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The Philadelphia Zoo on Wednesday officially introduced a newborn Sumatran orangutan to the ...

The Louisville Zoo is asking for help in naming its new baby tiger.The Sumatran tiger cub was born July 23 and is the first tiger birth at the zoo in 20 years. We now know the baby is a male.

Kami Sambal, a Sumatran tiger at the Louisville Zoo, has died just a month after his baby cub was born, zoo officials announced Monday. Zoo medical staff took notice of Kami's rapidly ...