In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is removing the wood stork from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife.

The Will County Forest Preserve District has applied three times in two years for a type of permit required before ...

What do saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths and the dodo all have in common?

Wood storks were listed as endangered in 1984, when its population had dropped by over 75 percent—from roughly 20,000 nesting pairs to about 5,000 nesting pairs—primarily due to wetland loss.

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, which has produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves and the woolly mouse, seeks to bring back extinct species.

After being listed under the Endangered Species Act in 1984, wood stork numbers have rebounded significantly. Do the birds ...

Forty years ago, wood stork populations in Florida were plummeting. But federal and private efforts have made a dramatic difference, officials say.

The wood stork was once on the brink of extinction and now can be found in 13 counties across Georgia's coast and southern ...

New research has revealed the biggest threats driving species toward extinction in northern San José, Costa Rica. Led by ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service determined the bird, once nearly extinct, has rebounded and no longer needs protections.

Extinction usually feels final. Once a species disappears, there is rarely a second chance. But a small number of animals managed to survive when everything seemed stacked against them, often because ...