Today's top athletes would be no contest for meat-eating dinosaurs that ran on two feet, according to new computer simulations of how the extinct predators moved.
Watch as a young lion journeys from a dismal cage and a diet of stray dogs to an open-air sanctuary that provides refuge for predators in need of a home.
Despite its new "critically endangered" status, the Okinawa dugong might see even more of its habitat destroyed due to a U.S. airbase expansion, conservationists warn.
Refugee cattlemen in a popular Uganda reserve are poisoning predators to protect their livestock, government officials say—but the cattlemen claim otherwise.
See a roundup of this week's news: India celebrates its 60th year of independence, London's Big Ben gets a cleaning, Mexico's Saint of Death gets a makeover, and more.
Exclusive: Last month's gorilla "executions" are the result of a burgeoning illicit charcoal trade that includes government officials, wildlife rangers allege.
The half-ton fish are known as China's "pandas under the water," but they'll soon vanish from the wild unless a new breeding program can save it. Third in a series on megafishes