Despite its limited applications on paper, the Constitution’s commerce clause has given the federal government carte blanche to regulate whatever it wants. Congress’s power over interstate commerce, ...

Content warning: This article reports on violence against endangered animals. Critically endangered animals are being advertised for sale as bushmeat on TikTok, a new study finds. The work, published ...

For the first time in 35 years, gorillas have a home at the zoo. It's a big upgrade from the previous enclosure for the primates.

The homeowners in East Stroudsburg, Penn., say the unusual creature has visited their house several times Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work ...

An international search is underway to populate the Onondaga County Aquarium at the Syracuse Inner Harbor, with officials revealing that a rare Western Australian seahorse will be among the first ...

Climate change and habitat loss are affecting animal populations around the world and reptiles such as South Australia's own endangered pygmy bluetongue are susceptible to higher temperatures and ...

The Trump administration moved Wednesday to weaken the popular Endangered Species Act in an attempt to restore changes made during the president’s first term that were later blocked by a federal judge ...

The Trump administration is proposing to axe protections for some animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act. The administration argues that the current rules are too stringent and stifle ...

The Trump administration moved on Wednesday to roll back Biden-era protections for endangered species and their habitats. The Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA’s National Marine ...

Coming face-to-face with a wild animal could be surprising, nerve-wracking, or even scary, but sometimes it can be adorable too. One Colorado explorer learned this first-hand on November 7 in the town ...

Police rescued more than 100 animals from a home in Edison, New Jersey, on Sunday. Investigators say dogs, rabbits, pigeons, birds, and more were being kept in horrifying conditions inside a home on ...