Tropical forests may be able to return naturally across millions of square kilometres of degraded land, offering a powerful but...

Virginia Tech researchers have uncovered new evidence that black bear hibernation is governed by a complex interaction between temperature, daylight,...

Species are moving as the climate changes, but the tools used to judge whether they are threatened may be failing...

For decades, traffickers have been stripping Mexico’s forests of wild parrots and feeding them into an illegal market that stretches...

A new range-wide genetic study of the freshwater mussel Venustaconcha ellipsiformis has revealed how ancient glaciers, changing river systems, and...

Indonesia’s seagrass meadows are revealing a striking ecological divide: some are thriving as exceptionally diverse underwater habitats, while others are...

Tropical mountain forests may be hiding a major biodiversity story several meters below the canopy. A study conducted in China’s...

A new species of groundsnake from the forests of New Guinea has been named after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash,...

British zoos and aquariums hold more than 2,600 vertebrate species, yet only a small fraction of these animals are native...

A new global analysis of tropical forest mammals is challenging one of conservation science’s most common assumptions: that the traits...