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
Flossie is expected to bring strong winds and heavy rain to the northwestern islands, but it's nothing the marine reserve there can't handle, a NOAA expert says.
As conservationists warn that bluefin tuna are near extinction due to overfishing, scientists are using the latest technology to tease out the fishes' migration mysteries and hopefully craft better protections.
High-tech satellite tags are offering researchers a clearer picture of the feeding and breeding behaviors of the huge but elusive fish, two new papers report.
Found only on the Asian island, the animals number only about 15,000 and are threatened by logging, plantations, and human settlements, a new satellite study shows.
There's light at the end of the tunnel for Florida's gopher tortoises, thousands of which were killed under a law that allowed builders to pave over their burrows.
No one knows how they got there, but three mummified ibises and five falcons have been recovered from a textile factory by Egyptian antiquities authorities.
The black-footed ferret, North America's most endangered mammal, has made a remarkable recovery in Wyoming, where only five of the animals existed in 1997.
One's pretty, the other not so much. But a new species of shrew and a rare orchid were both discovered by scientists recently in the southwestern Philippines.
