The Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing seven species of pangolin, often poached for their scales and meat, as endangered ...

Elephants have long been thought of as either African or Asian. But there are actually two species of African elephant: The savanna elephant is larger, has curving tusks, and roams the open plains ...

Videos show how African elephants may be the first nonhuman species to use vocal name-like identifiers for each other, suggesting "the capacity for some degree of symbolic thought,"; researchers said.

But many exotic animals such as the threatened African lion are not protected by the Act. That means that it is legal to hunt lions, Grant’s zebras, giraffes and a large number of other exotic ...