Marine scientists have been amazed to discover an endangered sea cucumber can live for decades, with some animals living more ...

Two historic sea turtle nests discovered in Southern California have been confirmed to belong to two different endangered ...

Centuries of demand for hawksbill shells built empires of decorative treasure, and even a global trade ban has not stopped ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kemp's ridley is the smallest and most endangered sea turtle. Cold-stunning events are further threatening their species.

An angler accidentally hooked an endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, a rare nesting animal in South Carolina, at Myrtle Beach State Park’s fishing pier last week. Only nine Kemp’s ridley nests have ...

For the first time ever, scientists recorded a sea turtle laying eggs on a beach on the U.S. West Coast. A fence was erected around the eggs of the olive ridley turtle. By Cynthia Silva The ruling ...

During the Early-Middle Devonian period, a large landmass called Gondwana—which included parts of today's Africa, South America, and Antarctica—was located near the South Pole. Unlike today's icy ...

This is either bad news with a silver lining or ominous good news, depending on how you look at it. After centuries of being hunted, shelled, eaten, and generally destroyed by colonial greed and ...

One of the most endangered sea creatures of the Pacific Ocean is getting a leg up in the kelp forests of Washington’s San Juan Islands: a 24-armed sea star called the sunflower star. University ...

Imagine explaining to your child what a rhino looked like — not from memory, but from a photograph. That grim possibility is closer to reality than most people realize. Scientists estimate that Earth ...