Wildlife

Ecologists are finding unexpected changes in the delicate ecosystems below Lava Beds National Monument.

Accidentally released on a Finnish island 30 years ago, the parasites are spreading.

The city's feral flock is thriving while the global cockatoo population is under threat.

Discovering the trait may help scientists protect the tuatara, which has been around since the dinosaurs.

The science of controlling marauding, sacred monkeys, from the new book by best-selling author Mary Roach.

As Fat Bear Week approaches, biologists share the results of a novel, noninvasive method to determine the animals' true heft.

A languid fish has a story to tell about longevity, lifestyle, and loss.

From glasswing butterflies to vanishing octopuses, evolution is a mad scientist.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

Clinging to the underside of ice hundreds of feet thick, strange communities eke out a living, while researchers race to study them before they disappear.

An underwater photographer captured the stunning side of a barrel jelly, usually seen washed up on the beach as a pile of goo.

An endangered species is thriving at a once-blighted lot, but climate change and other challenges threaten its future.

The body of water, which shouldn’t even exist, has a long history as a source of both controversy and comfort.

The bean-sized snail has persevered despite hundreds of related species going extinct in recent decades.

Studying the animal’s nerve network may help scientists understand our own.

New technology and changing habits may keep beachgoers safe as the local great white population grows.