New footage from Hawaiian waters shows something that should be impossible: unlikely companions sharing dinner without any ...

Case in point is my fondness for Ginkgo trees, the oldest living tree species in the world.  Back in my university days I ...

New DNA and protein studies reveal the Dragon Man skull is Denisovan, rewriting the story of early human evolution in Asia.

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Illinois’ nearly extinct prairie chicken and Chicago’s famous piping plovers, Monty and Rose, are among the highlights of the ‘Winging It’ show.

Unusually high mortality for gray whales along the coast has researchers concerned for the recovering species.

Volunteers and conservation groups and agencies are in the jack pine forests this week, counting the Kirtland's warbler which ...

Ornithologists and locals wonder what the future holds for this chick being raised by much taller, but still doting parents ...

Off the east coast of China, researchers discovered an unusual spiky creature feeding on a jellyfish-like species called a hydroid. In recent years, similar specimens were recorded in that region of ...

Those with a fear of snakes will have to keep that fear in check while visiting Tennessee, where it is illegal to kill snakes.

In a unique collaboration between the University of Groningen and the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, researchers ...