Are box turtles in worse shape than herpetologists thought? University of Toledo researchers raise the question in new ...

Returning rescued slow lorises to the wild may sound like a conservation success, but a new study shows it can turn deadly. Researchers tracked nine released animals and found that only two survived, ...

A sweeping new study of more than 2,000 insect species reveals a troubling reality: many insects may be far less capable of coping with rising temperatures than scientists once hoped. Researchers ...

In a unique class hosted at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, early-career ecologists learned to apply emerging ...

Humans are often described as “super-predators,” but wildlife may not respond to us as uniformly as once thought. People have ...

Up to half of the insects in the Amazon region could be exposed to life-threatening heat levels due to progressive, anthropogenic global warming. This is shown by a recent study by the universities of ...

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

New research suggests animals' cooperation is sustained by remembering past interactions, not just the most recent one. Longer memory allows for better differentiation of partners, leading to more ...

Tribally run management and a deal with Yellowstone National Park, is helping forge a future for coexisting with the iconic ...

Field primatology expanded rapidly in the late 20th century as biologists began to study apes and monkeys where they lived rather than only in museums or laboratories. Southeast Asia’s rainforests ...

A new special issue in Acta Ethologica explores the diverse ways animals think, learn, and interact, revealing 'intellectual ...

Throughout the Amazon Rainforest, forest fragmentation represents an escalating and existential threat to the preservation of ...