The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

Over 300 million years ago, before the age of giant dinosaurs, Earth was covered with giant insects. Why were insects so enormous during this time? What did oxygen have to do with it? And why did ...

Meanwhile, the chimango is quickly becoming a vital part of the urban ecosystem. It helps control pest populations while also ...

Run by the state of Florida instead of the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement agency, Alligator Alcatraz can hold as many ...

The world still holds its secrets. Hidden under wet rocks, in the ocean’s twilight crevices, and in the minutiae of the ...

A BIRD once thought to be locally extinct has been spotted near a village church. A hawfinch has been spotted by D. Webb at Walford Church, who previously spotted one of the birds in Marcle Ridge in ...

A zoo has been carrying out its annual animal census to update its records and count the more than 800 mammals, birds, ...

Some animals matter so much to their ecosystems that losing them is like removing the keystone from an arch—the entire ...

A new type of beetle has been named in tribute to Gerald Durrell, the author and naturalist who founded Jersey Zoo. The ...

Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the ...

Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the ...