A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that while the natural world continues to face a biodiversity crisis, targeted conservation efforts are helping bring many species back from the ...

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...

Fungi are difficult to study in both nature and under experimental conditions. This is because of many species’ microscopic ...

Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing-dog trainers, remain out ...

Microplastics are silently sabotaging the planet’s greenery, curbing photosynthesis, and threatening food security.

The Serengeti ecosystem is regarded as one of our planet’s greatest natural treasures, where one can witness “the largest ...

This exact scene has already been spotted in numerous cases south of Brisbane, prompting fears that "high-density" ...

A new analysis from researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History reveals that nearly half of the genus ...

Potential solutions being touted include relocating nilgais to tiger habitats, clearing away invasive weeds so ...

Assistant professor SAGA Tatsuya of the Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, who is captivated by hornets ...

This year, the creatures spend the warmer months up north in areas around the US and Canada ... Edwards said.Even the invasive white cabbage butterfly, “a species that is well adapted to invade the ...

Users of the iNaturalist app - scientists and park staff but also visitors and even kids - have logged 6,939 species in the Great Smoky Mountains.