Four men were recently arrested and fined for attempting to smuggle more than 5,000 ants out of Kenya. Aiming to sell them as part of the exotic pet trade, these ants were being stored in individual ...

By Edward Carver The United States is the main market for “ornamental” marine fish, those that end up as pets in aquariums.

Global illegal trade in wildlife is estimated to be worth $32 billion, with rare species in Australia at risk.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Eleven cheetah cubs were rescued from illegal trade in Somaliland in what a conservationist described Thursday as "one of the largest confiscations of the species." The cubs ...

Tony continues an exploration of invasive species. In part two of the series, Tony continues an exploration of invasive species. This episode includes the Caribbean land crab, lionfish and ...

Five capybaras escaped a contained research facility in the state in the '90s. Elizabeth Congdon, an assistant professor at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, is studying the ...

Pet parrots from Mexico are now thriving in the wild in Los Angeles, numbering in the thousands, as scientists unravel the ...