Many animals change landscapes by acting as ‘ecosystem engineers’. Protecting and restoring nature can help us become more ...

Certain animals have evolved remarkable speeds to catch prey or evade predators. The ostrich, impala, and kangaroo showcase nature's incredible ingenuity, leveraging their speed and agility.

In the majestic Murchison Falls national park, through which the River Nile runs east-west, we estimated that approximately ...

The populations of some of Africa’s most iconic wildlife have been bouncing back thanks to decades of conservation efforts. But activists are warning that climate change and human activity are ...

Unable to identify the animal — and wondering if it was someone’s escaped pet — she shared a video of it on social media. On Feb. 25, Cerase posted a five-second clip of the tiny creature ...

Animals' unique abilities to predict natural disasters have amazed scientists for centuries. Dogs, elephants, fish, toads, cats, birds, cows, and snakes show unusual behaviors before earthquakes ...

Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant's teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. Geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or tusks reveal where ...

Conservation Efforts Are Bringing Species Back from the Brink, Even as Overall Biodiversity Falls Mar. 18, 2025 — A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that while the natural ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris ...

The Center for Biological Diversity located in Tucson Arizona has documented illegal cattle damage in Arizona’s Agua Fria ...