A new population of the highly endangered greater bamboo lemur has been found in east-central Madagascar wetlands, hundreds of miles from its forest-dwelling relatives.
Hot sand is hard-boiling eggs of some rare turtles in Costa Rica, spurring efforts to counter this and a host of other problems caused by a changing environment.
Just months after being removed from federal "endangered" status, the region's gray wolves have been temporarily relisted, derailing state plans to hold public wolf hunts this fall.
Animals that were injured or left homeless by the May 12 earthquake are getting second chances -- and sometimes homemade walkers -- at a shelter near Chengdu.
The end of the "running of the bulls" festival, a peek at the opening ceremony of the Olympics, and the pope's visit to Australia are among this week's highlights.
Toadfish grunts, bird songs, and human speech are all controlled by a common brain circuit that first appeared in animals hundreds of millions of years ago, a new paper says.
An Australian veterinarian recently helped save an endangered grey nurse shark by sticking his arm down the shark's throat and dislodging a steel hook.
Humans, birds, and other land animals share a brain circuit for vocalizing with toadfish, suggesting that the mechanism first appeared in animals 400 million years ago, a new study says.
