Over the past few decades, the harvesting of the Cortez oyster in western Mexico’s Marismas Nacionales — or the Marshes ...

Life originated in the ocean and there are many more major groups of animals there than on land! For example echinoderms (starfish, urchins, etc.) only occur in the ocean. Despite this, there are far ...

Birds are among the most vulnerable. Since humans arrived, 71 birds have gone extinct, according to the state Department of ...

Many people who contract measles don’t know right away that they have it. Days after infection, the symptoms can feel like the flu, until the tell-tale blotchy red rash emerges—usually near the ...

A meta-analysis of scientific studies, published in Biological Reviews has investigated differences in resource use efficiency between native and non-native species.

Scientists discovered a new forest killifish in Kenya, revealing both evolutionary and tectonic history—but its habitat is ...

The demand for rare, endemic species is also driven by collectors ... with countries from where wildlife is trafficked, citing the example of a recent EU-funded WCS report on how NGOs can help ...

the collective of researchers said the Wildlife Conservation Plan being prepared as part of the project fails to address the gravity of threats to the endemic species. “We are bound by morality ...

Ants are a wildly successful sector of nature’s bestiary, accounting for maybe a quarter of all terrestrial animal matter ... and another the Green, for example—the groups started sniping ...

There are 115 species of reptiles, almost half of them endemic, in some cases even to individual islands ... sometimes in impressive numbers, for example huge colonies of California Sea Lion. The five ...

For example, the Steppe Eagle, ringed in Russia ... These citizen contributions are especially important for tracking endemic species like the Hinde's Babbler, whose limited range makes them ...