The cardinal tetra is one of the most popular pet fish in the world. They look like little red and blue sequins. You've ...

Hatchlings talk inside their shells to time their birth, but the roar of massive barges may soon drown out their sound.

Picture this: you’re a scientist digging near the Amazon rainforest, and you pull a jawbone out of the ground that looks so ...

The Cerrado, largely overlooked in climate science and policy, is a critical carbon sink, according to new research.

The new 340-square-mile reserve isn't far from the capital of La Paz, but this proximity belies the ecological value found there.

There are some forests on Earth that are so old they stretch back millions of years, even through drastic changes in climate, geography, and biodiversity. These are often called “living museums” due ...

This awards season, watch the first-ever Nature Breaking Awards, honoring excellence in the fields of wildlife & ecosystems.

Discover why tiny Amazon insects are so vulnerable to heat and what their decline could mean for forests, wildlife, and people.

But hiding along a stretch of Interstate 90 in Central Washington is a geological marvel that rivals anything you’d find on ...

After years of analysis, the animal turned out to be an entirely new species — one that lived millions of years longer than ...

Scientists long believed stem tetrapods largely disappeared after a major ecological event known as the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse. That event caused widespread destruction of tropical forests ...

Tanyka broke that mold entirely. Its lower jaw twisted outward from back to front. Some of its teeth pointed outward and sideways, not toward the opposing jaw but off to the side. Lining the inside of ...