"Conservation" Blogs & Blog Posts

Exploring previously unmapped underwater seamounts, the Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition may have found 100 new marine species, including sponges.

Scientists don't know where great white sharks give birth. New footage of a newborn could offer clues. The baby also has an unusual white color.

A sand-swimming golden was located in South Africa after not being detected for a whopping 86 years. The adorable creature, called "De Winton's golden mole," was declared a "lost species" after having last been spotted way back in 1937, but a group o...

The proposal from the US Fish and Wildlife Service suggests eliminating "larger and more aggressive" barred owls to save the threatened spotted owl.

Blue whales were wiped out from waters near the Seychelles islands half a century ago but underwater audio captured by scientists shows they returned.

Bald eagles, American alligators, and grizzly bears are among the species that have rebounded since the Endangered Species Act passed in 1973.

The campaign launched by John Oliver, host of the HBO show "Last Week Tonight," for the Pūteketeke to win New Zealand's Bird of the Century contest resulted in a massive landslide for the colorful water bird. The online voting event is held by Ne...