Recovering the endangered critters will test society’s willingness to let nature reclaim a landscape.

In the fourth and final story of this exclusive Mongabay series, entomologists around the world offer far ranging solutions to curb and reverse the great insect die-off.

A viral video shows another side of the U.S. national bird. As it turns out, bald eagles frequently swim, moving through the water using an avian-style butterfly stroke.

From sperm whales to dolphins, marine mammals in the eastern Mediterranean face a lethal threat from oil and gas exploration

When a humpback whale was found stranded on Cape Cod, a team of BU scientists raced to the scene. Did noise pollution in the ocean contribute to her death? Her whale ears may hold clues.

Adjusting for their size, most of the longest lived mammals are bats.

This mangrove forest holds one of the world’s largest remaining wild populations of tigers.

This latest mass-mortality event is another sign of the Arctic’s rapidly changing climate.

A fungus has been genetically modified with spider venom to kill the mosquitoes that spread malaria.

"We are living climate change right now."

“In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and…

"The world must be coming to an end," one scientist joked.

Just when you thought spiders couldn't get any more terrifying.

As the Earth's magnetic north pole heads towards Siberia, concerns have been raised that the northern lights could move with it.

Beneath the island’s rainforest, explorers search for new discoveries deep within some of the Earth’s largest, longest, and wildest caves.

In the desolate Antarctic landscape, life is hard to come by—unless you’re near some seal and penguin poop. The nitrogen-rich feces enrich the soil and create hot spots with lots of biological diversity that can extend more than 1000 meters beyond the borders of penguin and seal colonies, according to a new study.

Fire chaser beetles' ability to sense heat borders on the spooky

Nature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over one million species of plants and animals, scientists said Monday in the UN's first comprehensive report on biodiversity.

The Eye of the Sahara is a unique geological formation in the Western Sahara that began forming hundreds of millions of years ago.

Steve Biro snapped the picture of 'Bruce' the bald eagle at a raptor conservation centre in Canada.

Hundreds of rare animal species take shelter in the 155-mile no man's land between North and South Korea

The hagfish is a slime-emitting ocean-dweller that's remained unchanged for 300 million years--and it shows. It has a skull (but no spine), velvet smooth skin, and a terrifying pit of a mouth that's lined with rows of razor-sharp teeth.

The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person. A nearby forest is too. Soon, the government will grant a mountain legal personhood as well. Here's how it happened, and what it may mean.

Until quite recently in human history, and an eyeblink in the history of Earth’s ecologies, wild horses lived across much of the planet. By Brandon Keim.

Coffinfish hold water over their gills for up to 4 minutes

The notion that there might be some new kind of killer whale emerged in 1955, when photos from New Zealand showed a bunch of unusual-looking whales stranded on a beach.

We know they're smart, but there's still a lot we don't know.

Thousands of adorable but poisonous Bufo toads, which can kill pets and are dangerous to children, have invaded a suburban Florida neighborhood. Cane toads, as they are known, range from 6 to 9 inches in length. Their babies are dime-sized, though, and those are the creatures hopping around in droves.

How real is insectageddon?

Dr Camilla Whittington from the University of Sydney has witnessed a three-toed skink lay eggs and give birth to live young from the same pregnancy. Find out what this world-first observation could mean for research into the evolution of pregnancy.

The creatures are not just incredibly clever, but also carnivorous, meaning a huge amount of wild fish will be caught to feed them, putting pressure on the ecosystem.

Plastic bags only 1% of plastic in freshwater after sustained efforts to reduce their use

In a dramatic last-ditch effort to save the monarch butterfly, scientists in Mexico want to relocate an entire forest 1,000 feet up a mountain.

A petition signed by 350,000 people calls for "netting" of trees and hedges to be a criminal offence.

New research has found that different types of habitat loss can change the stability of whole plant and animal communities.