The endangered Vallarta mud turtle faces severe habitat loss in Mexico, leaving its tiny surviving population at urgent risk.

Conservationists are hoping to strengthen regulations at a wildlife trade conference on birds, reptiles and other animals ...

Forget the giraffes, gibbons and leopards. About a dozen visitors at the Turtle Back Zoo in New Jersey gathered one recent morning around the most unusual sight of all. It was a small, light-brown ...

In October, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at California’s Otay Mesa border crossing noticed an odd bulge inside a man’s pants. Jesse Agus Martinez, a U.S. citizen who lives in Tijuana, ...

Surging exotic pet trade sparks calls for tighter crackdown - Social media influencers, who have made owning exotic pets cool ...

Weaving for 12 miles through the mangrove forests of western Florida, the Weeki Wachee River offers visitors an up-close look at some of the region’s most iconic wildlife — like manatees, dolphins, ...

The New England Aquarium and Audubon Aquarium Rescue are helping over two dozen Kemp's ridley sea turtles recover from a ...

Twenty-five Kemp's ridley sea turtles, considered the rarest among sea turtles, arrived in the Keys Tuesday after being ...

Audubon Aquarium Rescue is authorized to rehabilitate sea turtles by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and marine mammals by ...