Genetic modification is the only credible path to restoring the blight-wracked American chestnut. Bruce Beehler is a ...

Like many folks, I never paid much attention to millipedes — those wormlike, multilegged creatures that crawl about in the leaf litter and hide under logs and rocks on the forest floor.

When landscapes change, exotic species take advantage of new habitats. Such a pulse of colonisation coincided with the Ice ...

Their unusual story began about a hundred years ago. Now, as they head to the high north, an ambitious new chapter is being ...

Bloom & Rage, the main character, Swann, takes an interest in the beauty of wildlife. She finds a bunch of critters to ...

Walk into the woods and you are bound to find standing dead trees, otherwise known as snags. Here's what you may not know about them.

A flying squirrel showed off its ability to glide from tree to tree while under a spotlight in a forest in India recently. Shivakumar Gangal, a member of the Indian Forest Service, captured this video ...

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food chain, ...

Scientists discovered that the red stigmas in wind-pollinated trees accumulate anthocyanin, the same compounds that are revealed in autumn leaves after green chlorophyll production slows down and ...

For the second straight year, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Umarex Big Squirrel Challenge broke attendance records ...

Swampscott Conservancy Though it’s the shortest month, February can feel like the longest. With the holiday celebrations over and perhaps our New Year’s resolutions already broken, we’re left with ...