American bison, by contrast, have a long, shaggy coat covering their front quarters, front legs and heads, light or dark ...

The reptile was named Crocodylus lucivenator, meaning “Lucy’s hunter.” The name references Lucy, one of the most famous early ...

War not only destroys habitats, it also arms the people living within them. When conflict descends on a region, the institutional architecture of wildlife protection collapses almost immediately ...

For 25 years, Seacrest Wolf Preserve has called 62 acres of land in Chipley home. Following a legal battle with their landlords, an eviction deadline is days ...

The cluster of infections appears confined to an area of San Mateo County, and no cases have been detected at Point Reyes National Seashore.

Global wildlife faces growing pressure, with nearly half of the world’s migratory species declining because of human ...

Neuroscientists have uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can't?

From shorebirds flying between their Arctic breeding grounds and southerly foraging ranges to freshwater fish returning to native spawning streams, migratory animals are struggling. About half of all ...

For months, four infant orangutans lived in limbo in Thailand — not as pets, but as evidence. Confiscated in two separate trafficking cases, they were cared for at the Khao Pratubchang Wildlife Rescue ...

In 2026, two tiny marsupials that were long written off as extinct were found alive in one of Earth's most remote and biodiverse regions.

Mass extinction is not just a theory; Earth has already gone through five of them, including the event about 65 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs. New research continues to warn that ...