On a damp, mist-laced slope of the eastern Andes, a small creature with reddish-brown fur and a black facial mask peeked from the edge of a pitfall trap. It was August 16, 2018, and biologist Silvia ...

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Unlike other mammals, which have a selective platter, orcas will snag anything from a school of small fish to the great white sharks. What’s more vicious about them is that they don’t just kill their ...

But HPAI is also a serious threat to certain types of wild birds, despite their having a long history of exposure to bird flu. Scientists believe that most other wildlife is catching the disease after ...

At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is the largest and most intact stegosaurus fossil ever unearthed. In July 2024, ...

Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park deserves special mention for its rehabilitation work with injured manatees and its famous resident, Lu the hippopotamus, who was grandfathered in ...

Detectives Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile who arrives in Zootopia and turns the mammal metropolis upside down.

Snakes are often seen as scary or dangerous, but there’s much more to them than their fearsome reputation. In fact, many snakes are stunning to look at, with vibrant colours, unique patterns, and ...

Hiding in plain sight for centuries, the critically endangered Burrunan dolphin is both an enigma and a conservation emergency.

Baron Jakob Johann von Uexkull, a Baltic German biologist, mentioned in his book entitled Stroll through the World of Animals that all creatures, including plants, on this planet live in an Umwelt ...

As human-driven climate change makes winters shorter, the time ticks spend active is increasing, making tracking them all the more important.

When researchers were conducting a field survey in Papikonda National Park in India in 2024, they noticed a small mammal sitting on the bank of the Godavari River. The animal was resting as the water ...