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 ...

Strawberry poison dart frog This bright, beady-eyed frog is renowned ... Its found throughout Central America and parts of ...

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 ...

By Margaret Renkl Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South ... for spotted owls or snail darters — creatures at the heart ...

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.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on Tuesday, accusing it of not protecting an endangered shrub once thought to be extinct ...