Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia’s extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the world, from platypus to koalas and wombats. Tragically, Australia is the ...

It might be less visible than dwindling lion populations or vanishing pandas, but the quiet crisis of small mammal extinction ...

At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched ...

It’s a phenomenon that was called the Homogenocene even before a similar term growing in popularity, the Anthropocene, was ...

Tidal turbines harbor the potential to provide a natural, inexhaustible source of power, but have faced some regulatory ...

With only fragments of evidence and massive unexplored habitat, the saola may still exist despite a decade of silence.

A robust, largely unregulated online trade in isopods could pose a serious threat to some vulnerable species, scientists warn ...

The bumpy-faced waterfowl can be found across the United States, but in almost all cases the birds are domestic versions of the wild ducks. Here's how to know which is which.

Louisiana prides itself on an abundance of wildlife, from alligators moving through bayous to herons lifting from marsh grass, but one animal carries a special layer of meaning for the state. The ...