Great apes began to diverge from other primates about 25 million years ago, according to eastern African fossil records.

Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: ...

At an empty outpost deep in a forest in Mexico, biologists were checking whether the windows had been broken or the furniture ...

In some cases, chimpanzees dabbed their open wounds with leaves. In rarer cases, they chewed up plant material (like leaves ...

In the forests of Madagascar, small lizards do more than sunbathe on rocks or snap at insects. In fact, they may be shaping ...

Pollution Time Machine: It’s not just living animals that carry remnants of humanity’s toxic footprint. Samples of bird ...

As federal cuts slash funding for staff and stewardship, homes to some of our state’s most iconic plants and animals are ...

Safeguarding natural areas and green infrastructure is the goal of an invasive species management strategy rolled out by the City of Brampton The strategy will be developed to guide how the city will ...

A study with the involvement of the UAB, IPHES-CERCA and URV, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, provides for the first ...

The return of the wolf to the Veluwe region is gradually turning the landscape into what ecologists call a “landscape of fear ...

Michigan's ecosystem is diverse, stunning and perhaps deadly. Growing in the state's woodlands are poisonous plants. Here are ...