If any bird looks like it belongs in Jurassic Park, it’s the toucan. Birds are living dinosaurs, after all, and this species ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...

So much so that they may be Earth's next big species if ours ends up going the way of the dinosaurs. While an octopus-dominated future may seem "improbable" at the moment, it "wouldn’t be the ...

All linked stories were reported, written and edited by McClatchy journalists. Unique creatures, odd animals and new species are discovered ... wildlife rangers at the Toucan Ridge Ecology and ...

For every county in the United States, the map below shows information on all the animals and plants protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act as threatened or endangered. To see the number of ...