American martens, a member of the mustelid family, are rare and have been declared endangered in Wisconsin and Vermont. Meanwhile, Minnesota calls the “full recovery of the population” within its ...

Snakes can sometimes be unwelcome guests in your garden or backyard, but you may inadvertently be giving them an invitation if you have these plants.

New genetic research suggests a common Southeast Asian frog long believed to be one species could actually be six or seven distinct ones.

A toucan was spotted perched on a tree along Conroy-Windermere Road in Orlando. The tropical bird whose natural habitat is ...

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 ...

A single week in late October 2025 produced a wave of new species discoveries across five countries, all connected by camouflage strategies so effective that the animals evaded scientific detection ...

That spider is one of several new animal species recently described by researchers in Vietnam, India, the Philippines, Borneo, and Peru. Each creature has evolved its own strategy for hiding in plain ...

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

Delaware's "Big Night" is an annual spring event where amphibians, mainly spotted salamanders, migrate to vernal pools to breed. This migration is triggered by warm, rainy nights in late winter or ...

Springtime in the Bay Area brings with it lush green landscapes, vibrant wildflowers and buds breaking open on trees. And in some places, the soundtrack to all that visual beauty is the chorusing of ...

What may sound like a spa day for frogs is all part of a global effort to fight the chytrid fungus — the deadly pathogen responsible for what scientists have called the largest disease-driven loss of ...

The UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden have said that laboratory tests show Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny died after exposure to a toxin found in a tree frog native to Ecuador.