In a sure sign that spring is not far behind, the first Purple Martins of the year have been spotted in North Carolina.

The evidence turns previous assertions that the Italian Christopher Columbus was the first foreigner to step foot in the New ...

New research has discovered 16 new desert grasshopper species, revealing their Ice Age-driven isolation and diversification.

It’s no secret that owls are a hot topic in the bird world. These birds of prey are fascinating, unique and rarely seen due ...

A fungus that has killed millions of bats across North America has arrived in Arizona, state wildlife officials announced on ...

Federal data only tells part of the story of how the global wildlife trade is fueling nature loss, a new study shows.

The three baby wolves were born this winter at the Smithsonian National Zoo’s conservation and research campus in Front Royal ...

With threats of avian flu and lead poisoning, biologists are working overtime to care for a species that nearly went extinct.

Here are five more ways that humans have scuppered the love lives of animals.

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

An 11,000-year-old Indigenous settlement found in Saskatchewan reshapes the understanding of North American civilizations.

A team at Rutgers is using artificial intelligence to predict where whales will be off New Jersey's coast. The data could save the animals' lives.