An extra-small chipmunk found in southern New Mexico mountains will gain endangered species status and a critical habitat designation, boosting its chance at survival. The Peñasco least chipmunk lives ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed this week to add the Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee to the federal list, which would ...

The once common sightings of the brightly colored monarch butterfly have become a rarer experience in recent years across ...

The Eastern hellbender, a slimy, mud-colored creature that ranks as Indiana’s and the nation's largest salamander, may be ...

On December 12, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has once again declined to list the Rio Grande cutthroat trout as an endangered species, disappointing a conservation group that has been pushing for years for extra ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with NPR science correspondent Jonathan Lambert about the decision, as well as other conservation efforts the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing as 2024 winds down.

U.S. Forest Service technicians will plant 1,500 Cooper's rubberweed plants to assist the endangered Mount Charleston blue ...

BEIJING, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have successfully assembled the chromosomal-level genome of the critically endangered Ochetobius elongatus, a rare fish species from the Yangtze River.

The U.S. Fish and ... beloved species — the monarch butterfly — and is encouraging the public to be part of its recovery. The service is seeking public input on a proposal to list the species ...