May a judge be considered a keystone species? If so, I nominate U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon, who issued an order on Feb. 25 that has far-reaching benefits for our threatened Columbia basin ...

Freshwater fish species have an uphill battle for survival, especially with a changing ecosystem. “So, we’re trying to see ...

Hundreds of tiny endangered fish slipped from orange plastic buckets into a glittering lagoon in Malibu on Tuesday, returning home five months after being whisked away from threats wrought by the ...

A group of endangered northern tidewater gobies has returned to their natural habitat in the Santa Monica Mountains after spending five months recovering at two Southern California aquariums following ...

Cattle producers and landowners are celebrating after the lesser prairie-chicken was removed from the endangered species list, ending years of regulations put on agriculture.

Researchers prepare to perform a necropsy on an endangered sawfish in March 2024 at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute. Nearly two years after one of the planet’s rarest fish began ...

Hundreds of thousands of marine animals are killed every year after becoming accidentally caught in commercial fishing nets. Sharks, skates and rays are at particular risk, alongside turtles, seals, ...

The top fish is the common shovelnose sturgeon, the bottom fish is the endangered pallid sturgeon. (DNR photo by Mark Flammang) The Iowa DNR says a recent survey to document the population of a ...

A woman was arrested in Crawford County for stealing an endangered species of fish from Patoka Lake spillway, in violation of Indiana's protective order.