Despite being land-dwelling creatures, several animals exhibit remarkable swimming abilities. Elephants use their trunks as ...

It may surprise some to know just how common collisions with wildlife are in our state. In 2017 alone, an estimated 33,000 ...

Fossilized footprints of a primitive reptile found on a slab of rock from Australia could rewrite the story of how animals ...

These human ancestors would have had plenty to take advantage of near these ancient rivers. Trees bore fruit all year, and ...

Turtles can be confusing animals, since they have characteristics that are traditionally associated with both reptiles and ...

Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being ...

Two Vermont underpasses are model wildlife crossings after a community rallied to stop thousands of migrating salamanders ...

The key to understanding how climate change affects local biodiversity might lie with the young, scientists have recently ...

Across Massachusetts, spring is the season of movement. Hibernating animals emerge from their winter resting areas in search of food and mates. Turtles are no exception. From mid-May to ...

Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or ...

In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy divers carefully snip ...

The red eft, the second stage of the Eastern spotted newt’s life cycle, is the most commonly seen salamander in the region ...