The recent deaths of 22 common dolphins caught in nets in New Zealand have sparked calls for better protections for rare dolphin species.

Tamales made from the eggs of threatened spinytail iguanas are an Easter tradition in parts of Mexico. Conservationists try to keep up the wild populations.

Researchers say they have shown for the first time that the young marine mammals—studied off the coasts of Maui and Kauai—produce a few different sounds.

With tiny brushes and chisels, workers in the basement of North Dakota's state museum are meticulously uncovering the nearly complete dinosaur—skin and all.

The tiny yellow-green bird with a lilting song is thought to be endangered in its island habitat of Sulawesi, biologists say.

The recent slaying of three lions and up to four elephants in southern Kenya reflects the increasingly heated conflict between wildlife and the country's growing human population. Warning: graphic photo

A recently enforced law will protect some nesting beaches for endangered leatherback turtles, but the reptiles still face threats from fishing practices, experts say.

Wild weather batters the United Kingdom, an imperial palace reopens in Rome, Brazilians fight police with bows and arrows, and more.

The legendary absence of snakes on the Emerald Isle has less to do with St. Patrick, its patron saint, than an ice-age chill followed by rising seas.

The powerful repellant temporarily jams an insect's sense of smell so that people don't register as food, according to a new study.

A bottlenose dolphin that saved two pygmy sperm whales this week has long been a local star at its New Zealand beach home.

The flashy-looking frog hadn't been seen in 14 years, until scientists "rediscovered" it last month in the mountains of Colombia.

The bottlenose dolphin Moko swam up to two pygmy sperm whales stuck in a New Zealand sandbar and guided them back to sea, witnesses report.

The six-inch, three-month-old titi monkey was stolen from the La Plata zoo, which was filled with 4,000 visitors at the time.

More than a hundred gharials found dead since December in an Indian river sanctuary likely died after eating fish carrying industrial chemicals, officials announced.