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

In the 1970s, the Mexican gray wolf was nearly hunted into extinction, with just seven remaining. So began one of the biggest ...

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 ...

Two Northern California tribes have committed to restoring the Eel River and its fish populations after Pacific Gas & Electric removes two hydroelectric dams. Removal of the dams is expected to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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