A small population of California burrowing owls is getting a helping hand when it comes to romance—from a team of devoted ...

Scientists have discovered a fungus that turns spiders into “zombies,” luring the arachnids out of their lairs before killing ...

World Bonobo Day highlights the urgent need to protect bonobos from habitat destruction, poaching, and deforestation.

The homeowner shared photos of their yard on Reddit, explaining that they are in the early stages of removing an invasive species from their property: the tree of heaven. The homeowner was less than ...

The term relatedness refers to how recently a particular species split from a common ancestor. Understanding the evolutionary history of species and the degree of relatedness among organisms is a key ...

Up close, it seems harmless — cute, even. With its rabbit ear-shaped antennae, fuzzy body and soft, mottled wings, the 2-inch-long insect looks like it emerged from a Guillermo del Toro or ...

The first comprehensive biodiversity survey of the park was published on Tuesday, revealing the rare and threatened species that live there, including the Sunda pangolin, the clouded leopard and ...

The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed. Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ...

Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation. There were 42 new additions to the national list of ...

"Freshwater landscapes are home to 10% of all known species on Earth and key for billions of people's safe drinking water, livelihoods, flood control and climate change mitigation, and must be ...

The Endangered Species Act (ESA), often criticized for its ... The research finds that while home prices within federally protected areas remain stable, prices in surrounding communities can ...

Recently, scientists identified a new species of these giant isopods and named it after the Star Wars villain, Darth Vader. Popular Science reports that the scientists from Hanoi University teamed ...