In a follow-up this April, Mongabay noted the IUCN estimate that around three Cross River gorillas are killed every year, "a devastating rate for a species with fewer than 300 individuals left in the ...

What you need to know. More than 3,000 non-native species have arrived in Australia since 1770. These include birds, plants, insects and invertebrates. Depending on how they behave, they can disrupt ...

In a karst cave in China, a rainbow-like parasitic creature was discovered as a new species. Francesco Ungaro via Unsplash Relationships between living things can take many forms. Bees get nectar ...

Every year, Scripps Benthic Invertebrate Collection Curator Greg Rouse and collaborators discover new species of marine life, especially during exploratory expeditions to mysterious and fascinating ...

Three Democratic U.S. senators are asking the Trump administration to explain how it analyzed a proposed rule to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species and whether ...

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office issued a warning Tuesday about a species closely related to a jellyfish washing up on local beaches. The presence of the Portuguese ...

The Trump administration’s attempt to weaken the Endangered Species Act is easy to criticize. This month, it proposed a rule that would limit what constitutes “harm” under the law to only ...

Six venomous snake species are native to Florida, including three rattlesnake species. Snakes are most active during warmer months, starting in the late spring and carrying on throughout the summer.

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound — that’s a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, sebecids were top predators until they went extinct during the Miocene.

Not the kind you’ll find on a piece of jewelry, though – these ones come in the form of a brand-new, teeny tiny, and super shiny species of poison dart frog. When we say “super shiny”, we ...

curid=1038943, via Wikimedia Commons. In a remarkable discovery that has electrified the scientific community, researchers have recently identified a previously unknown species of wild cat living in ...