You’ve probably seen a headline or two about an invasive species taking over. Perhaps you’ve seen a sign warning of ...

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

How scientists (and the rest of us) are finding 16,000 new species a month.

The animal kingdom is a wonderful and wacky place filled with creatures with all sorts of unique abilities, ranging from walking on water, holding their breath miles beneath the ocean and even living ...

Diffuse coevolution is also known as multi-species or guild coevolution. It occurs when several species collectively influence one another. An example is pollination systems in which plants interact ...

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...

A new paper provides the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this is about ...

RALEIGH – An interdisciplinary group of researchers is proposing a new way to think of some interactions between species, classifying a variety of plants, animals and fungi as “nature’s chefs.” ...

Intact ecosystems have the capacity for self-regulation, which keeps their complex structure of species—such as animals, ...

Roughly 1 million species of wildlife face extinction worldwide, according to a recent United Nations report. Ecologist and author Rebecca Nesbit joins Geoff Bennett to discuss the ethics and decision ...