The illegal trafficking of wild animals and plants has become a huge threat to the world’s biodiversity. Wildlife trafficking ...

Australia’s sleepy lizards know to go when they smell smoke.

Camouflage Alone The popular belief is that chameleons change color solely to disappear into their surroundings. While ...

Tropical cyclones have been dangerous and deadly even in the time of giants but paleontologists turned to some of the ...

The modern coelacanth is a famous "living fossil," long thought to have died out, but first fished out of deep waters in the ...

Curiously, I’ve never written about one of the most common species of animal that occurs in Minnesota. Not once in the ...

Two tiny pterosaurs, preserved for 150 million years, have revealed a surprising cause of death: violent storms. Researchers at the University of Leicester discovered both hatchlings, nicknamed Lucky ...

The investigation into the 150-million-year-old deaths has overturned centuries-old beliefs about the remarkable Solnhofen ...

The cause of death for two baby pterosaurs has been revealed by University of Leicester paleontologists in a post-mortem 150 ...

When we think of the prehistoric world of dinosaurs, we often forget that they shared their habitat with numerous other fascinating creatures. Among these were many remarkable reptiles that have their ...

If you’ve ever jumped three feet in the air at the sight of a “twig” that turned out to be a snake, welcome to the monsoon season in India. Along with fresh air, lush greenery, and surprise power cuts ...

Neuroscience demonstrates that all reptiles possess brains and neuro-capacities comparable to our own. In this interview, Gordon M. Burghardt, Alumni Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and ...