A Kemp's ridley sea turtle swims into the ocean after being released by New England Aquarium biologists in West Dennis, ...

A massive Kemp’s ridley sea turtle — the world’s smallest and most critically endangered sea turtle species — washed ashore on a Galveston, Texas, beach on March 7, 2026, launching an emergency rescue ...

A bizarre-looking sea turtle left beachgoers doing a double take after it washed ashore in Texas looking like it had a coat ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

This endangered sea turtle was found in rough shape on a Texas beach. What happened next is giving researchers hope.

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

The Marine Mammal Protection Act, enacted in 1972, has prevented the extinction of marine mammal species in U.S. waters. Proposed legislation threatens to weaken the act by restricting scientific data ...

(Gary Braasch / Corbis) When Polynesians arrived at the uninhabited Hawaiian Islands thousands of years ago, they found an array of colorful tree snails, each less than an inch in length, across the ...