Gray rat snakes are among the most common snakes in Mississippi. Their unique body shape helps them climb almost anything. What you need to know ...

Oak trees change their fine roots and "energize" soil microbes by supplying them with a cocktail of small organic compounds, ...

While green isn’t an unusual color in nature, beautiful green animals are somewhat rare and exotic. Many green-colored animals, such as toads and various insects, have little to distinguish them ...

Have you ever met a cat that feels like a secret? The clouded leopard is just that—a shadowy beauty, slipping through the ...

Most people don’t realize how risky it is for koalas when they leave trees. New research now shows something alarming. Koalas ...

Can animals share the same space peacefully high above the ground in the treetops? A research team at the University of ...

This adaptation is so useful that it evolved independently in both red pandas and giant pandas, showing just how valuable extra gripping power is for bamboo-eating, tree-dwelling animals.

In this episode of World Wildlife Fund’s Wildlife Café series, Alexander Nicolas and Tremaine Gregory uncover the secrets of arboreal ecosystems, how tree-dwelling animals navigate life in the canopy, ...

A 62-million-year-old fossil shows Mixodectes was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates. The discovery sheds light on early mammal evolution. Credit: Stephen Chester A ...

Australia’s unique wildlife is epitomized by two of its most recognizable marsupials – the koala and the kangaroo. While both have become international symbols of the Land Down Under, these iconic ...

“What da flip? People climbing the tree of life today at [the] Animal Kingdom,” a TikToker captioned a video of the incident ...

Four new tree snake species were discovered by a researcher on islands in Papua New Guinea.