A biologist’s decades-long research in a secluded village led to the discovery of a rare genetic condition and transformed ...

One by one, four fluffy white ferruginous hawk chicks emerged from eggs in a nest near Touchet at the start of this month, ...

Many children in a Brazil town lost the ability to walk, so one scientist set about discovering why.

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Sometimes — but not very often — a door creaks open to a lost world. Sometimes the right person steps in. Dale Guthrie, an ...

Costa Rica’s iconic May beetles are disappearing due to urbanization, pesticides, and climate change, threatening ecosystems.

"Fishes of the Chicago Region," a guide to fishes of the Chicago region by Francis Veraldi, Stephen Pescitelli and Philip ...

Whether you have a small suburban plot or a big, rambling yard in the country, chances are your garden attracts the resident ...

The ostrich is the tallest bird that inhabits the planet today, but fossil evidence suggests that birds used to be much ...

Vanessa Minke-Martin is a former fish biologist with a master of science from the University of British Columbia. She was the 2020 journalism intern at Hakai Magazine. Vanessa lives on Vancouver ...

On the final day of 50 years of working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ranger Donna Stanley woke as usual at 5:30 a.m. to start her shift at Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge in Seymour at ...

Captive breeding works for endangered axolotls, according to a new study that is reviving hope that the species can make a comeback.