The Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium announced plans to move two of its elephants from the zoo to the International Conservation ...

Ants make a series of clever architectural adjustments to their nests to prevent the spread of disease, University of Bristol ...

Farmers in Kui Buri are turning elephant crop damage into eco-tourism and conservation opportunities with support from ...

Two of the African elephants at the Pittsburgh Zoo are on the move. The zoo says female elephants Victoria and Zuri will be ...

A new exhibition at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., gives visitors a whiff, from “chocolate-y” to stinky blue cheese.

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now ...

The Nobel Prize winners didn't just make a scientific discovery. They opened a doorway to the future -- a future where the ...

Pangolins are the world’s most illegally trafficked mammal, with poaching driven by demand for their meat and keratin scales, which are used predominantly in scientifically unproven traditional ...

Weaver ants have solved a problem that has plagued human teams for centuries: individuals contribute less to tasks when more people join in. New research published in Current Biology on 12 August ...

A fossilized Caribbean dirt ant, Basiceros enana, preserved in Dominican amber, reveals the species ancient range and overturns assumptions about its size evolution. Advanced imaging shows it already ...

Call them nature’s own luxury high-rise condo rentals. Squamellaria plants, from the same family as coffee and quinine, are fat aerial tubers perched high in tropical trees. In Fiji, one of the ...