A recent study published in Current Biology has found that animals living at elevations of 1,000 meters and higher have a ...

A Colorado zoo's field team was in for a surprise when they unpacked their truck and found that a wild marmot had hitched a ...

In a nutshell Scientists discovered three new species of Pristimantis frogs in Peru’s Cordillera de Huancabamba, a remote and ...

Climb up a mountain and you may notice that the temperatures get colder, tree species change or disappear altogether, and the plants and animal species are different than those found on lower ground.

Two more cases of rabid animals in the Superstition Mountains east of the Phoenix area recently were confirmed, Pinal County health officials said Friday. The Superstition Mountains Wilderness ...

The species is believed to exist nowhere else except a single peak within a mountain range in southern China, researchers ...

The new minnow species, Phoxinus kottelati, is able to change its color pattern during spawning, according to a study. Photo ...

Scientists have found a new species of tarantula, a red-reared arachnid, in Arizona, and the discovery was "rather unexpected." “We often hear about new species being discovered from remote ...

In the Andes Mountains of northern Peru, a long-tailed mammal with a “facial mask” moved through the undergrowth. Suddenly, ...

The team analyzed global elevation distribution data—both historical and modern—for 440 animal species and 1,629 plant species across 23 mountain regions, totaling 8,800 data points.

Another species, Haploclastus montanus, was found living at elevations higher than 2,000 meters (6,600 feet) in mountain forests, making it one of the highest-living tarantulas known from the region.

The rugged Annamite Mountains, which stretch across Laos, ... “We found several threatened species that, by definition, are not doing very well globally or within the country.