The ivory-billed woodpecker, along with 22 other species of birds, fish, mussels and other wildlife, is set to be declared extinct and removed from the endangered species list, US wildlife officials ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

They’re gutting the Endangered Species Act, have you heard? A good friend of mine hired a professional photographer, at great expense, to take pictures during a planned event. Afterward, when the ...

Imagine if you turned on the news tonight and saw a report that a hunter had accidentally shot down a pterodactyl. That's almost what happened on the Eastern Cape of South Africa in December of 1938, ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...