News and research about endangered species from around the world
It's not exactly easy to study the great white shark ( Carcharodon carcharia s) in the wild, but new evidence suggests that while we've been worrying about tigers, gorillas and other obviously rare species, the great white has been quietly disappearing from the oceans...
The bat-killing fungal infection known as white-nose syndrome (WNS) has spread into Tennessee for the first time. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) has confirmed that infected bats were found in Worley's cave in Sullivan County, where they had been hibernating.Most Tennessee caves were closed to visitors last spring to try to prevent WNS from reaching the state's bats...
Hundreds of brown pelicans ( Pelecanus occidentalis ) have been found sick or dead off the California coast in the past month, the victims of a mysterious ailment that has scientists baffled...
A critically endangered fish whose swim bladder is believed to cure illnesses has been caught and sold for more than $500,000 in China.
The 135-kilogram Chinese bahaba ( Bahaba taipingensis ), the first fish of its species caught in at least a year, was thought to be more than 50 years old...
Henry David Thoreau famously catalogued the plants around Walden Pond more than 150 years ago, and the information he gathered then is helping to illustrate the effects of invasive species and global warming on the area today...
Despite documented threats posed to the American pika (Ochotona princeps ) by global warming, the rapidly disappearing mammalian species will not be protected under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S...
Poor water quality and habitat loss are driving Ireland's terrestrial and freshwater snails, along with related species into extinction, according to new research by the National Biodiversity Data Center (NBDC), a three-year-old organization established to study that country's biodiversity...
Few things in my life have brought me as much joy as watching sea otters play in the waters near Monterey, Calif. So when I heard this week that the frisky yet endangered critters may be slightly expanding their habitat, I figured everyone would think that was good news.Silly me.Once hunted into near-extinction for their fur, the southern, or California, sea otter ( Enhydra lutris nereis ) now numbers around 2,600 to 2,700 animals, all of which live in a fairly small habitat range off the central California coast...
Now that you know we're getting six more weeks of winter, why not snuggle up in front of the computer to ponder the fates of the groundhog's less fortunate cousins.
Can't the blobfish ( Psychrolutes marcidus ) get some love? This ugly, gelatinous, inedible fish now risks extinction thanks to humans trawling marine murky depths for lobsters and crabs...
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