The fish belong to a subfamily called South American darters. The discovery brings the known number of darter species to five. One species, Poecilocharax callipterus, is distinguished by its long ...

A tortoise from a Galápagos species long believed extinct has been found alive and now confirmed to be a member of the ...

Since then the act has reached its long fingers into many aspects of American life ... no one can say with certainty how many are going extinct. Moreover, extinction itself is hard to observe ...

The Service recently declared 23 species extinct. Many of the 23 ... the largest of Florida’s 13 bat species and the second largest in North America. They are found only in South Florida. The bats ...

The dazzling hue of the blue poison dart frog warns predators of deadly toxins lurking within its skin. Frogs of the Dendrobatidae family can be yellow, gold, red, green, or blue. They are found in ...

The media hasn’t paid much attention to the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. With a war raging in Ukraine, a domestic ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is adding the trispot darter ... Scott South Pole Station, which has about 40 researchers in the summer. Since 1950, Baltimore has dropped from America’s ...

They dart them to secure muscle tissue ... A research paper published this year suggests the megaladon may have gone extinct because it lost a food-competition battle with white sharks. No matter the ...

In September, TNACI biologists and Aquarium staff donned wetsuits and snorkels to evaluate the health of Bridled Darters in ... a declaration of extinct status for 23 American animals, including ...