A chipmunk found only in New Mexico was listed as endangered in December of last year. The Peñasco Least Chipmunk is one of ...

The species is believed to exist nowhere else except a single peak within a mountain range in southern China, researchers ...

Two separate adult mountain lions were recorded with cubs in different parts of the state last year, offering the first ...

In the mountains of eastern Iraq, a hunter stumbled upon a black-tongued predator. Instead of killing the dangerous animal, ...

The state wanted no part of the operation, so the Nez Perce stepped in to partner with the federal government.

Long before the American government removed them both from their ancestral homelands, wolves and Native Americans coexisted ...

Through new research, a team in Montana State University's College of Agriculture has published a comprehensive look at ...

Lands inhabited by Indigenous peoples in the tropics host much of the world's biodiversity. An estimated 60 million ...

A group of hikers in the San Gabriel Mountains recently encountered a rare sighting: a large family of bighorn sheep. As seen in images posted by the Instagram account @lahikes on May 29, hikers ...

Mount Everest, located in the Himalayan Mountain Range, is the tallest mountain in the world. It reaches an elevation of 29,032 feet. The mountain itself is nestled between Nepal and Tibet, in an ...

The species is in the Near Threatened category of the IUCN Red List, so they’re also fairly rare to see on the mountain. Other species of tahrs are facing more grave danger, including the ...