The first giant panda to be born in Japan in 24 years has died just one week after generating huge excitement in the country as locals celebrated the rare birth.
Take a journey of discovery to north western Rwanda in search of the majestic mountain gorilla.
Gorillas put off their food and stressed out orangutans, could nature tourism be bad for wild animals' health?
The Australian government has angered koala conservationists by again delaying a decision on whether to add the national icon to the country's endangered species list.
The environmental group Sea Shepherd has offered a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the conviction of those responsible for shooting at least seven sea lions in Washington's Puget Sound.
CNN films gorillas up close in Rwanda - one of three countries where mountain gorillas can be observed in the wild.
The hot African sun is turning cool and big and a deep soft orange, and the impala are getting mighty jumpy. They ought to be. A half-kilometer across the grassy bush, we're watching a pack of eight African wild dogs, downwind and sniffing a scent, planning their evening hunt.
Mysterious sightings in California have sparked a renewed interest in the "master of the grasses"
CNN's Kaj Larsen sees firsthand how the Navy trains dolphins. For more, watch CNN Presents Sunday, July 31, 8p ET/PT.
Wildlife officials in Colorado say they have killed a bear believed to have been involved in an attack on a teenage boy Friday morning.
Increase of tiger population and human sprawl has created human-tiger conflict. CNN's Mallika Kapur reports.
Several years ago, an 81-year-old woman with a raised patch of dry skin on her arm visited Mississippi dermatologist John Abide, M.D.
A rider in the budget bill to keep the federal government in operation has triggered fury among some wildlife groups because it would remove certain wolves from the endangered species list.
Dead baby bottlenose dolphins are continuing to wash up in record numbers on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, and scientists do not know why.
American Morning spotlights a 21-year-old silverback gorilla who has started walking like a human.
You've read the headline, and it probably made you giggle. Go ahead. Get it out of your system. Then take a deep breath and consider how evolution affected a few specific body parts, and why.
Five months after the Deepwater Horizon explosion unleashed a torrent of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, a male dolphin washed up on Louisiana's Gulf Coast just barely alive.
Sitting at his office in Kathmandu, Maheswar Dhakal, a government ecologist, can tell exactly where in a jungle about 600 kilometres away, at what altitude and what temperature Namobuddha, a two and a half year old tiger, is at a given moment.
The number of mountain gorillas, which are a critically endangered species, has increased by more than 26% in regions in eastern Africa, according to a new survey released Friday.
Scientists have discovered a new species of elephant, and it's been right under their noses the whole time.
CNN's Colleen McEdwards shows us a Russian tiger park helping to save the species.
DiCaprio was en route to the Tiger Summit when an engine blew and he emergency landed back in N.Y.
In 2010, the Year of the Tiger, about 3,600 of the majestic predators remain in the wild, their existence threatened by habitat-loss and poaching.
A giant panda cub -- the only one this year in the United States -- was born early Wednesday at Zoo Atlanta, the zoo said in a statement.
Lun Lun the giant panda gave birth to the first cub to be born in a U.S. this year at Zoo Atlanta.
Zoo Atlanta is soon expecting the first panda birth in U.S. this year. Lun Lun could give birth in 10 days to two weeks.
Giant panda Lun Lun is pregnant, and officials at the Atlanta, Georgia, zoo say they are thrilled.
Rising numbers of captive tigers in the United States are putting citizens at risk and could be fueling illegal trade in animal parts, which threatens their survival in the wild, conservationists have warned.
Polar bears clinging to melting ice sheets have become one of the most frequently used images to portray the perils of climate change.
Scientist Hanta Rasamimanana takes CNN into the Madagascan jungle to observe lemurs in their natural habitat.
An intense cold front in southern Latin America continues to blanket the region, causing deaths, school and highway closures, and other woes.
The oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico could trigger a massive manatee rescue. CNN's David Mattingly reports.
With the utmost care and a healthy dose of respect, Monica Ross brought the pontoon boat to a crawl, shut its engine down, and asked for quiet. She was careful not to disturb the small antenna, which floated on the surface of the Crystal River marking the location of Coral, an 800 pound manatee.
Potential cancer vaccine! Possible anxiety treatment! Scientific studies looking at potential therapies for physical and mental illness often sound exciting -- that is, until you read further and realize they're in mice.
The biodiversity of small mammals in North America may already be close to a "tipping point" causing impacts "up and down the food chain" according to a new study by U.S. scientists.
Two hundred and sixty brightly painted life-sized fiberglass elephants have appeared across London.
A remote village in South Africa is ready to put an end to the battle between humans and baboons.
A Pennsylvania man attempted to resuscitate "a road-killed opossum," state police say.
After years of living in the public eye, with hundreds of thousands of adoring fans, the sponsorship deals, the million-dollar home, the dozens of staff to serve his every need -- suddenly, Tai Shan, a U.S.-born panda, is finding himself in a much quieter life.
Washington's favorite panda has a new home in China, and his handlers say he's happy. CNN's John Vause reports.
In 2002, a male killer whale, or orca, who had been on public display in concrete tanks for 19 years, swam off on his own into the Atlantic Ocean.
Florida's endangered manatees are dying because of unusually cold weather. CNN's David Mattingly reports.
The unusually cold weather that struck Florida in January did more than damage crops and citrus trees.
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The Indonesian government is considering a controversial plan to place endangered tigers in private homes.
Kenyan wildlife officials are ferrying thousands of zebras and wildebeest to a park in the country's south to feed starving lions and hyenas, and prevent a conflict with humans.
Tigers could become extinct in the wild in less than a generation, the World Wildlife Fund warned Wednesday as it launched a campaign to save them.
At least three times in recent weeks, they've been spotted in various parts of Manhattan, from the streets of Harlem to Central Park to Columbia University.
Two of the world's most famous pandas received a celebrity's welcome in China Friday after being shipped from the U.S. aboard the aptly named FedEx Panda Express.
CNN's Emily Chang reports on the arrival of two pandas in China, both born in the U.S.
It feels like it went by in the blink of an eye. Tai Shan, the giant panda cub so many people have come to know and love, is about to board a flight to China.
Tai Shan gets a snowy sendoff at the National Zoo in Washington before being sent to China.
The furry side of U.S.-Chinese diplomacy.
Two beloved giant pandas left the United States for their new homes in China on Thursday.
Self-help guru James Ray was arrested after a grand jury indicted him on three counts of manslaughter.
James Ray: The self-help guru appeared in court Thursday to face manslaughter charges in the deaths of three participants at an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony he organized last year.
On the operating table lies a sick koala. He's just been brought in by a driver who found the animal sitting in the middle of a busy road. Veterinarian Claude Lacasse determines the koala has not been hit by a car but she immediately detects one serious problem facing many of the marsupials: Chlamydia, a disease which can lead to a very slow and painful death for koalas living in the wild.
Australia's koala population is in rapid decline following urbanization and disease. CNN's Anna Coren reports.
CNN's Arwa Damon joins some orangutans at a jungle rehabilitation center.
A loud crack echoes throughout the canopy as two young orangutans come tumbling down, grasping at branches along the way to break their fall. They recover and sheepishly scamper back up.
"The Cove" is a controversial documentary about dolphin slaughter that reveals the distressing secrets behind the multi-billion dollar industry in captive dolphins.
Experts say there are steps people can take to keep their pets safe
CNN's John Zarrella reports hunting bears with research scientists is literally a sweet deal for the bears.
At the heart of Florida researchers' high-tech efforts to protect black bears is a rather low-tech tool: day-old doughnuts.
For the first time in decades, the hunting of the gray wolf is legal again in the United States. And that's a good thing for ranchers like Cindy Siddoway of Terreton, Idaho, whose sheep are threatened every day by wolves.
A rare white tiger mauls and kills a zookeeper in New Zealand. TVNZ's Melissa Stokes reports.
A white tiger mauled a zookeeper to death at a New Zealand wildlife park Wednesday as a group of tourists watched in horror, police say.
Scientists hailed Tuesday a 47-million-year-old fossil of an ancient "small cat"-sized primate as a possible common ancestor of monkeys, humans and other primates.
As an unusual primate fossil is shown in New York, scientists talk about the 'Missing Link.' CNN's Richard Roth reports.
As people across China's Sichuan province continue to rebuild their lives one year after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake leveled some towns and cities, the region's famed giant pandas are still struggling due to the devastation wreaked by the deadly temblor.
CNN's Naamua Delaney interviews the directors behind the movie "Earth" following three animal families across the planet.
A polar bear falls through thin Arctic ice while searching for food for his family. A humpback whale guides her calf on a perilous 4,000-mile journey. A herd of African elephants in search of water battles a sandstorm in the Kalahari Desert.
Conservationists have found a new population of orangutans in a steep, mountainous corner of Indonesia -- a discovery that significantly adds to the number of the endangered red-haired primates.
A polar bear attacked a women at the Berlin Zoo after she climbed a fence and jumped into its habitat during feeding time.
The Irrawaddy, one of the world's rarest species of freshwater dolphins, have been found in surprisingly large numbers deep in the waterlogged jungles of Bangladesh.
The Humane Society has accused a federally funded primate center of mistreating chimpanzees and other primates, saying that some animals showed signs of psychosis and self-mutilation.
Rescuers have saved more than 50 whales and five dolphins that stranded themselves on a beach in Tasmania, officials said Monday.
Volunteers attempt to save whales and dolphins stranded on a beach in Australia. Seven Network's Nick McCallum reports.
In the wake of a highly publicized chimpanzee attack, the U.S. House made its first official move to ban humans from owning primates as pets.
Summer is over in the northern hemisphere, but it's been another chilling season for researchers who study Arctic sea ice.
Arctic sea ice is at the second lowest level ever. CNN's Miles O'Brien reports on its impact on wildlife and climate.
For the first time in 400 years, the beaver has returned to Great Britain.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday lifted sanctions placed on the Navy over its underwater sonar testing, a setback for environmental groups that claimed the warfare technology was harming whales and other marine mammals.
In his victory speech on Tuesday night, Barack Obama promised his daughters Sasha and Malia that they'd get to bring a new puppy with them to the White House in January.
A Reuters reporter tried to pet the presidential pooch and got bitten instead.
Nearly a fourth of the world's mammals are threatened with extinction, a leading international conservation group said Monday as it unveiled its latest global study of the problem.
Nearly a fourth of the world's mammals are endangered, says an international conservation group IUCN. CNN's Al Goodman reports.
The Supreme Court appeared conflicted Wednesday as it juggled national security and environmental concerns in a case over whether the U.S. Navy is doing enough to protect whales from underwater sonar tests it conducts.
Nearly a fourth of the world's mammals are threatened with extinction, a leading international conservation group said Monday as it unveiled its latest global study of the problem.
How habitat loss and degradation are driving down the numbers of thousands of mammalian species
Conservationists have taken the first detailed look at the world's mammals in more than a decade, and the news isn't good
Polar bears will now be listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act.
The U.S. rules against granting the polar bear full endangered status, but the species will be protected.
Whether or not cuteness is a trait that evolves in the fittest, in some cases it sure boosts a species' chance for survival
It looks like a scene from an old episode of The X-Files: As a red-tailed hawk circles overhead and a wild pronghorn sheep grazes in the distance, a dozen people in dark sunglasses move methodically through a vast field of golden barley, eyes fixed to the ground, GPS devices in hand. They're searching for bodies.
A mountain lion entered a family's home and killed their dog right beside their bed. KUSA reports.
Almost 50 percent of the world's primates are in danger of extinction, according to a report from an international conservation group that cites habitat destruction and hunting as the two greatest threats.
Three tigers attacked a worker at an exotic animal park in southwestern Missouri on Monday -- the state's second tiger attack in as many days
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