The northern ocelot is classified as an endangered species. The small cat once roamed the southern U.S., but only a few hundred still exist. Photograph By Joel Sartore, National Geographic, Photo Ark ...

Namibia is a southwestern African nation roughly twice the size of California, known for having the world’s oldest desert. The Namib Desert is the scene for many of Namibia’s must-do adventures, from ...

After being hunted to eradication in Washington and Oregon in the 1930s and 1940s, the gray wolf’s recovery in these states ...

Conservationists went to dramatic lengths to save the birds, including pumping boiling hot water into the ground to ward off ...

Spectacularly colored shells make these critically endangered Cuban snails highly sought after, but some are working to save them. A collection of Cuban painted snails (Polymita picta) adds ...

China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three ...

Found across every continent except Antarctica and Australia, vultures like the lappet-faced species have lived among humans for millennia. But because they feast on the remains of dead animals ...

A caretaker calms an orphaned Irrawaddy river dolphin at the Marine Endangered Species Veterinary Hospital in Rayong, Thailand. When the dolphin's ready, it will be released to join its wild pod.

A better understanding of how these amphibians grow new appendages may lead to better wound healing—or even new limbs—in ...

This was the second time the endangered Mexican wolf, tagged F2754, was captured by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Asha has been held in captivity ever since.

For decades, Himalayan brown bears have killed livestock and destroyed homes in this rural village. Residents are learning new ways to coexist with their fearsome, but critically endangered neighbors.