By Rhett Ayers Butler [( In Madagascar, frogs are not background noise. They are a measure of how much forest still functions ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of red soil and rocky ground. The dry seasons are long, and the wet seasons ...

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...

The Close-Up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY) has announced the winners of its 2022 challenge: Minimal!

In the slow-moving canals and shadowy marshes of the Florida Everglades live some of the most dangerous creatures. You ...

As winter fades and spring arrives, Connecticut’s wetlands, ponds, and forests come alive with the calls of frogs and toads. These amphibians are an important and often overlooked part of the state’s ...

The skull pieces sit in the rock like a faint fingerprint, the kind you could walk past in the Kimberley heat and never notice. But those scraps, collected more than 60 years ago from what is now ...

S. Emi Knafo, DVM, DACZM, discusses the species she commonly sees in practice as a zoological medicine specialist, in a ...

From bird-dropping mimics to legless burrowers, these newly discovered species were hiding right under our noses.

As climate change and biodiversity loss make headlines, the Wild Kingdom host explains why young conservationists — and her ...