A century of research on Barro Colorado Island has contributed to our understanding of forest ecology. Researchers from Utah State University and the University of Utah rely on the island for their ...

If you think doomscrolling leads to sleepless nights, imagine waking up in bed with a blood-sucking monster the size of a ...

The “tiny” snake is often mistaken for an earthworm and is being shipped globally unintentionally in the root balls of ornamental plants, researchers said.

Understanding how genes influence complex behaviors remains one of biology's most fascinating challenges. Now, however, in a recent study, researchers have compiled a comprehensive dataset documenting ...

Rocky Mountain National Park announced April 3 that lab tests conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that a fungus ...

Such breeding efforts are key in ensuring that species threatened with extinction do not disappear off the face of the earth.

The downside of the spring warmup — the emergence of biting mosquitoes and other flying pests — would be much worse without ...

Another image that routinely appears on social media feeds suggests the exhaustion a bat might feel hanging upside down for ...

Southwest Texas is the location of some pretty amazing parks, and I had the opportunity to visit two of them: Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico and Guadalupe Mountains National Park in ...

The team captured two Furipterus horrens — a type of “thumbless bat” — marking the first time the species has ever been recorded in the Ecuadorian Andes or found outside the Amazon rainforest, ...

Banyans usually grow on hardwood hammocks. They are considered a keystone species, essential to the hardwood tropical ...

The Malayan flying fox has many names, including the greater flying fox, kalong, and large fruit bat. Its most accurate name ...