Category: Around the Web

Milkweed plants are vital for monarch butterflies and their larvae, providing nutrition to power their multi-generational migrations. Many of these plants have declined due to human development, prompting conservation organizations...

Researchers have described a bird species new to science found on a remote island off the southern tip of the Americas. The subantarctic rayadito (Aphrastura subantarctica), a small brown bird...

The invasion of just two species has cost $17 billion over the past 35 years, according to a new study examining the effects of alien reptiles and amphibians. Brown treesnakes...

Wildlife managers are fighting the spread of rabies in the eastern U.S. by delivering millions of oral rabies vaccines by air. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working to control...

For the first time in 75 years, biologists have spotted sea turtle hatchlings in Louisiana. The Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) hatchlings were found in the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, located...

Seabirds in the Shetland Islands of Scotland are experiencing “unprecedented” numbers of die-offs from the highly pathogenic avian influenza. Species like northern gannets (Morus bassanus), great skuas (Stercorarius skua), and...

A U.S. federal court has sentenced a man to more than five years in prison for poaching more than 100 elephants and more than 35 rhinoceros in Africa. Moazu Kromah,...

While free-roaming domestic cats drive down populations of birds, small mammals, reptiles and amphibians across the globe, research reveals that their impact goes beyond just killing. Researchers conducting a literature...

Grasslands’ biodiversity and resilience to disturbances such as fire, heat and drought is the result of a slow process over hundreds of years, like that of old growth forests, researchers...

When researchers discovered a lone female tortoise on one of the more remote Galapagos Islands, it raised intriguing questions. Only one other tortoise, a male found in 1906, had ever...