Conservation

Iron scales may not be enough to protect the scaly-foot snail from extinction.

Only in Florida.

The creature survived the crash and wandered dazed in circles around a highway exit in Tallahassee before a trapper turned up.

Today’s most dire conservation crises have a bloody past.

What's the story behind reefs' mysterious "halos" of empty sand?

An endearing animation presents some unusual and marvelous creatures.

The biggest threat to seabirds isn't plastic straws. It's balloons.

A snake pulled from inside another snake's stomach was a species unknown to science.

A blind, worm-like amphibian species has a new and presidential name.

The deadliest cat in the world isn't a lion, leopard or tiger.

A trap laid to catch a pig killed a critically endangered Sumatran tiger.

Teams in Washington and Canada are working together to save Scarlet, a starving 3-year-old killer whale.

Will this starving young killer whale respond to researchers' attempts to save her?

Can an unconventional solution help save this orca's life?

Here's how a group of dedicated researchers helped save Mexico's sharks.

A pride of hungry lions in a South African reserve just saved the day, at least for a herd of rhinos.

Koko, the western lowland gorilla who signed her way into people's hearts, died in her sleep.

The little rays use the shallow reefs as hiding spots to avoid big sharks in the area.