Endangered Species

A months-long rescue operation transported the last of nine stranded giraffes to their new home in a mainland sanctuary.

The longest sawfish ever measured washed up in Florida, not far from another large specimen.

Tapanuli orangutans now occupy less than 3% of their historic habitat.

The adorable clone, named Elizabeth Ann, was created using cells that were frozen more than three decades ago.

A 38-foot-long (11.5 meters) whale that washed ashore in the Florida Everglades in January 2019 turns out to be a completely new species. And it's already considered endangered, scientists say.

A combination of satellite images and deep learning computer algorithms can spot elephants from space as well as the human eye.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials are looking for the person who scratched the word "Trump" into the back of a manatee.

The world's oldest known orangutan, a 61-year-old Sumatran female called Inji, has died at Oregon Zoo, ending a lifetime of inspiring visitors to care about her kind.

To protect endangered black-footed ferrets from COVID-19, scientists in Colorado have injected a major captive breeding population with an experimental vaccine.

Conservationists are using bats' echolocation abilities to help track these mammals, as many of them succumb to white nose syndrome.