Avian influenza has swept through waterfowl flocks across the East End this month, killing hundreds of Canada geese and ducks, and sparking fears that the disease could decimate the region’s ...

Conservationists are raising the plight of the pangolin, a scaly anteater found in parts of Africa and Asia that is the most ...

Natural forest regeneration is hailed as a cost-effective way to restore biodiversity and sequester carbon. However, the fragmentation of tropical forests has restricted the movement of large birds ...

Adrian Dyer previously received funding from The Australian Research Council. Klaus Lunau previously received funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. For flowering plants, reproduction is a ...

A snatch of song, a flash of movement, the twitch of a tail: Birds bring life and charm to the garden all year long, if you make it a welcoming place. “Some gardens are more bird-friendly than others, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some animals, such as the grasshopper mouse, consume highly venomous creatures. Of all the mammals in the world, humans by far ...

Of all the mammals in the world, humans by far have the strangest diets. As omnivores, we have the most variety of any other animal in the food we consume. We also delight in the culinary arts, ...

If you grew up on nature documentaries, you probably have “snake = scary predator” wired into your brain. But out in the real world, snakes are very much on the menu. Birds stomp them. Mammals chew ...

One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The middle ear of mammals, with an eardrum and several small bones, allows us to ...

Invasive Burmese pythons, such as this one that was part of a tracking project, eat a variety of prey, including birds, deer, and other mammals. They also spread the seeds inside those prey. Image ...