Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have found that the critically endangered regent honeyeater faces hidden genetic ...

Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

Decades-long conservation battles like the one to save the manatees take exhaustive legal advocacy and persistence in the ...

The shapes we see in starling murmurations are an example of “emergent behaviour” ... from relatively simple underlying rules’ ...

Humans are pushing many of North America’s pollinators dangerously close to extinction, according to a newly released study.

A desert native, and high school biology teacher is on a mission to connect her high school students with the beauty and ...

What animal has the longest gestation period? From salamanders to elephants, here’s how long it can take to make a baby.

Conventional wisdom is that if you cultivate host plants, butterflies will come. Take, for example, milkweed. After declining monarch populations began making headlines in the late 1990s, people ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the ...

These are both examples of native plants ... my students and I have done studies on populations of native species in open fields and have sketched images in notebooks to build familiarity with ...