ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATEA bizarre-looking shark was spotted floating atop the water near the Italian island of Elba, which has a body of a shark and a face that resembled that of a pig.
The Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) celebrated its 30 years of effective conservation work by reintroducing woylies, or brush-tailed bettongs, to the Northern Territory, where the species were extinct for over 60 years.
Scrotum frogs, who earned their unfortunate name from their soggy skin, are now on display at Chester Zoo in the UK as wildlife officials hope to save them from extinction.
Xerces blue butterfly has been the first insects that was pushed to extinction by human activities. With the butterfly gone, researchers identified whether the insects were just a group swarming in San Francisco Bay, or a species of their own.
Wildlife biologists captured for the first time after 40 years a female grizzly bear in Washington state together with its three cubs. They fitted a radio collar on the bear before releasing her and her cubs to monitor it.
Chinese officials announced that giant pandas are no longer endangered species after recording over 1,800 giant pandas in the wild, thanks to decades of conservation efforts.
A chance encounter at a rare and unique plant - one that does not have leaves feeding on sunlight - has been found deep in the rainforests of Malaysia, paving the way for it to be scientifically described for the next time.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature o IUCN recently said that more than 37,400 animal species are at risk of disappearing or becoming extinct. This also puts human survival under threat.
Relocating endangered species is one way of species conservation. But experts believe that conservationists might unknowingly be spreading pathogens between threatened animal populations.
The latest IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has brought some bad news for African Elephants and that's both species have been downgraded from being 'vulnerable to being 'endangered.'
Researchers from Manchester Museum, part of the University of Manchester, bred one of the world's rarest toads for the first time: the variable harlequin toad.
Elizabeth Ann, the black-footed ferret, becomes the first-ever cloned US endangered species whose DNA came from another black-footed ferret that died over 30 years ago.
A new study recently suggested that with the proper conservation measures, the Philippine pangolin can still be saved and it is not yet considered an endangered species.