The COVID-19 lockdowns gave researchers the opportunity to study how animals were affected by human development and presence.

Four Chacoan peccaries moved into their habitat earlier this summer at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

Explore 25 remarkable instances of animal intelligence that challenge human supremacy. From tool-using chimps to ...

A newly described species of ghost shark, Rhinochimaera costaricana, has been identified from deep waters off Costa Rica ...

Pacific beetle cockroaches have an extraordinary ability to produce a milk-like substance for their young, which crystallizes ...

Researchers identified the fish using a mix of traditional anatomy and modern DNA analysis ...

A population boom in New Zealand's endangered flightless kakapo parrot demonstrates how species can claw their way back from the brink.

A new online exhibition teams a wildlife extinction story with a study of the people guarding it ...

Dougal Dixon’s The New Dinosaurs imagines an alternate present where the asteroid impact never wiped out non-avian dinosaurs, allowing them to evolve for another 66 million years. The result includes ...

Scientists breed rare newts as Crater Lake's ecosystem unravels.

A new spider species has been Idaho. The small, nickel-sized brown arachnid was found in the remote mountains of the Nez ...

From beaches and tidal creeks to swamps and suburban neighborhoods, bats are quietly working the night shift across the Lowcountry.