UNC Greensboro researcher Bryan McLean helped identify a new species of squirrel. How he and collaborators found the Snake River Plains ground squirrel in Idaho: ...
World Hippo Day serves as a reminder of their importance in the ecosystem and the need for their protection. For centuries, ...
SPRINGFIELD — A revamped exhibit at the Springfield Science Museum begins with an eastern box turtle as a greeter, a colony ...
The return of the bison means the return of the prairie, one of the three great grassland ecosystems on the planet.
Beavers have saved the Czech government and its citizens $1.2 million, by flooding an area, where a dam was planned.
In a river of northeastern Brazil, an “armored” creature with “large” eyes paused to rest against a rock. The maze-like pattern that helped camouflage it in the wild also made it a popular aquarium ...
A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...
The banks of the mighty Meghna River, in some areas, are littered with an alarming number of dead fish and other aquatic species. Shocking levels of industrial pollution are to blame for this, experts ...
Akagera National Park, which borders Rwanda and Tanzania, is a "patchwork of wetlands, lakes, savannah and woodlands", said ...
"It will allow us to help answer a variety of ... questions." Scientists make incredible discovery in Illinois river for ...
When tourists venture into nature, their thoughts are often focused on the animals they'll get to see. But animals may also ...