Across the globe, a small number of animal species are now so rare that only a few individuals remain in the wild. Habitat ...
Five new animal species that camouflage themselves as excrement or bark reveal some of what still remains hidden in the world ...
Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...
An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...
Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...
Billions of animals make migratory journeys each year on land, in rivers and oceans, and in the skies, crossing national boundaries and continents, with some travelling thousands of kilometres across ...
A new electronic monitoring system from BioMedic Data Systems Inc., of Maywood, N.J., can make the identification of animals throughout the course of an experiment as easy as reading the bar codes on ...
Climate change has a wide range of effects on wildlife. It affects seasonal migration, reproduction times, body size and mass ...