A team of researchers set out to find a tiny minnow everyone assumed was gone forever. They trekked to a remote river in eastern South Africa, cast their nets, and pulled up a dozen little fish that ...

A biologist's unusual “fish bunker” of preserved aquatic life shows how humanity has pushed some species to their doom.

That creature is already extinct.' If something that was said to be gone was actually living quietly somewhere, how would you ...

Researchers identified a new freshwater fish species in South Africa after years of genetic testing and analysis. Zoosystematics and Evolution Zoosystematics and Evolution A team of scientists went ...

The stories of a whale, a panther and a butterfly help explain why new interpretations of the Endangered Species Act could be ...

A fish previously declared extinct has been released back into the wild in Australia. The olive perchlet, a small oval-shaped fish with large eyes, was considered extinct in Victoria, Australia, in ...

Thirty-six species found in New York are protected under federal legislation signed more than 50 years ago.