Fifty-nine finfish species have 'disappeared' from fishermen's catches in the world's most species rich and vulnerable marine region, new research has shown.
In the largest study of its kind, experts from Newcastle University, UK, have highlighted the impact that uncontrolled...
This 2012 photo provided by Joe Wasilewski, shows a Nile crocodile that he found in Homestead, Fla. University of Florida researchers recently published a paper showing that captured reptiles in 2009, 2001 and 2014 are Nile crocs. Nile crocs...
This is a photo of a Peter's Twinspot in Tanzania. Credit: Staffan Andersson
In the bird world, the color red has special significance. Many species use red signals to attract mates or deter rivals, adding the color to their beaks,...
Hornbills in the Kalahari desert may keep cool by losing heat through their beaks. Credit: Tanja van de Ven
When temperatures are scorching, southern yellow-billed hornbills in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa dilate blood vessels in their beaks to...
Afrocymbella barkeri was identified by Belgian taxonomists Christine Cocquyt and Els Ryken in Lake Challa, a 92-metre deep crater lake at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro on the border of Kenya and Tanzania.Credit: Image courtesy of Lancaster University
A newly...
Dead coral smothered by coal. Credit: Kathryn Berry
Australian researchers have raised fresh concerns that a major shipping disaster could harm the Great Barrier Reef, with new research revealing coal dust in seawater can kill corals and slow down the...
Vaquita swimming in the Northern Gulf of California in Baja, Mexico. Credit: NOAA Fisheries
Mexican authorities must immediately and indefinitely close all fisheries within the habitat of Mexico's critically endangered vaquita porpoise -- or we will lose the species forever.
The...
Foraging red knots in Mauritania are shown. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 13, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.A. van Gils at NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea...
This is a sural in the process of formation with earthworm aggregates on top.Credit: Professor José Iriarte
Mysterious spectacular mounds found in Earth in tropical wetlands in South America are created by earthworms, researchers have found.
The densely packed, regularly spaced...
A fossil found in Maryland was identified by a University of Pennsylvania doctoral student as belonging to a new species of ancient dog. The hyena-like canine, with massive jaws capable of crushing bone, would have lived approximately 12 million...
This chart presents ten years' worth of results from an annual survey of honey bee colony loss conducted by the Bee Informed Partnership. Originally designed to only track winter losses, the survey began tracking summer (and therefore total annual)...
