Across the globe, a small number of animal species are now so rare that only a few individuals remain in the wild. Habitat ...

Climate change has a wide range of effects on wildlife. It affects seasonal migration, reproduction times, body size and mass ...

Five new animal species that camouflage themselves as excrement or bark reveal some of what still remains hidden in the world ...

Nature is full of surprises, but few are as fascinating as hybrid animals, creatures born from crossing two different species ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

Billions of animals make migratory journeys each year on land, in rivers and oceans, and in the skies, crossing national boundaries and continents, with some travelling thousands of kilometres across ...

A new electronic monitoring system from BioMedic Data Systems Inc., of Maywood, N.J., can make the identification of animals throughout the course of an experiment as easy as reading the bar codes on ...