The Department of Natural Resources proposed changes to the state’s list of protected species, requesting to remove 16 species and add eight. According to a statement from the DNR, the bureau ...

Twenty years ago, Reinartz said the badger wasn't even on the list of species recorded at Cedarburg Bog, which since the 1950s has been one of the most closely studied natural areas in the state.

It is one of the biggest online projects ever attempted, it will contain all 1.8million species known to man and the first 30,000 pages of the Encyclopaedia of Life has just been published on the ...

The ferret badger's name is actually fairly self-explanatory. It's a member of the mustelidae, the family of mammals that includes weasels, badgers, ferrets, otters, martens, minks and wolverines.

The latest update of the world's list of threatened animals and plant species, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, carried out by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) reveals ...

Not yet extinct, but getting there: experts estimate only 10 of this endangered species remain. Here's a list of the top 10 rarest animals on earth.

However, most of the 37,400 threatened species on the Red List, let alone the 97,000 other species of less threatened status, are known only by specialists. Yet all of them are essential to the ...