Every year, gray whales embark on one of nature’s most epic migration journeys. Here’s what we know about it, according to ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Biologist Katharine Edmonson asked the young boy who approached her table if he wanted to hold the tiger skull in his hands. Some children hesitate, but not 11-year-old Devin Shuman, a fifth-grader at ...

During his regular checkup, a 9-year-old clouded leopard named Masala undergoes a procedure to get a tiny heart monitor implanted under his skin at the Smithsonian's Conservation Biology Institute in ...

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Researchers from the University of St Andrews have developed an AI tool that reads animal movement from video and turns it ...

Winter tends to be cold and barren, a time when it appears nothing's available to sustain area wildlife. People with good ...

Steve Nesbitt–a retired Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission wildlife biologist, who over a FWC stint of some 35 years, developed a reputation for extensive knowledge about a slew of ...