At an eel restaurant near Tokyo, four friends sit down to eat a Japanese delicacy now the subject of a heated international ...

On the remote shores of British Columbia, a wolf waded into cold saltwater and seized a buoy in her jaws. With slow, ...

When the tide rolls out along the shoreline of San Pablo Bay, plots of long, sinewy grass, known as eel grass, peak out from the water. Researchers have long known these plots of grass as a favorite ...

The wolf “appears to demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of the multistep connection between the floating buoy and the bait within the out-of-sight trap,” scientists said.

Two Northern California tribes announced Wednesday that they signed a treaty last month, committing to jointly restore the Eel River and its fish populations.

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the ...

A rare golden eel, traditionally considered an auspicious sign, was released back into its native habitat one month after being caught. Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province released the golden ...

The maned wolf is a unique animal in the canid species, and earlier this month, the Louisville Zoo welcomed a 6-year-old male ...

This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. On January 10, 2019, a group of scientists reported in the journal Science that the world’s oceans nearly doubled the ...

BROOKFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Brookfield Zoo officials are hoping a new, realistic wolf exhibit will help its wolves leave the zoo for good.

Overfishing and other threats have depleted populations of this iconic species. A new proposal to restrict international ...