A major study reveals that UK heather moorlands, the size of Birmingham, vanish each year—raising urgent questions about what’s driving ...

An academic study indicates that some of Britain’s ground-nesting birds risk being wiped out unless there is intensive ...

The name actually comes from the Canadian French “crapet,” which refers to many different species of the sunfish family. They have a variety of nicknames, including papermouths and specks.

Herpetologist Fred Kraus discovered a new arboreal snake species, Dendrelaphis atra, on Misima Island in Papua New Guinea. This snake, characterized by its matte black coloration and adaptability ...

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Farmers in Hampshire and West Sussex have successfully restored populations of lapwings that are facing extinction. They are ...

But lapwing numbers have fallen dramatically since the 1980s and they are now listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Habitat loss and ...

One type of important bacteria is called enterococci, which includes more than 17 different species. They’re found in the intestines of nearly every animal on earth. Only a few types of ...

(Wilder Institute) Zachary MacDonald, co-first author alongside Julian Dupuis of a new study published in the biodiversity research journal ZooKeys, said the new species is an exciting discovery ...

Prof Bernd Hänfling, one of the project's researchers, said the fish were a "keystone species" in many large, deep UK lakes. "Their adaptation to cold, clear water makes them highly vulnerable to ...

Deemed the northern snakehead fish (Channa argus) because of its unforgettable head that resembles a snake and its python-like coloration and pattern, MDC Invasive Species Ecologist Angela ...

“Our team has discovered a new fossil ant species representing the earliest undisputable geological record of ants,” Anderson Lepeco, a study co-author and paleontologist from the Museu de ...