A citizen science project is aiming to document species on the Cowal Peninsula for the first time in 50 years.

A new study indicates that the adaptable birds evolved into distinct lineages as isolated populations shifted to match their ...

Ice age people painted these animals 12,600 years ago.

With talons larger than a grizzly’s and stealth built for Amazon ambushes, it’s no wonder the harpy eagle is considered one ...

Many of the world’s cutest animals have more than just good looks; they are also genuinely fascinating. Once you take a ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply ...

Researchers around the planet grew up watching documentaries hosted by the English broadcaster and naturalist, which sparked ...

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ecosystem collapse could unfold. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey If deforestation ...

There’s a place on Earth so wildly alive, so impossibly dense with life, that scientists have barely scratched the surface of cataloguing everything living in it. Spanning nine countries and covering ...

A sea otter rests in a kelp bed in the Morro Bay Harbor near Morro Rock. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found that southern sea otters remain a threatened species. Laura Dickinson ...

The Amazon Rainforest stands as Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, a living laboratory spanning nine countries across South America. This verdant paradise houses an estimated 10% of all known species ...

Tropical forests are hot, steamy places. But when large numbers of trees are cut down, they get even hotter. Our recent research shows that clearing large areas of the rainforest exposes hundreds of ...