Before heading out to do their fieldwork, Dr. Stephanie Collins, Jing Lu and their team would scan the horizon, get tips from local residents and check a whiteboard at the research station in ...

Long before dinosaurs dominated the landscape, a colossal millipede relative the length of a family car crawled through what ...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, came into force 50 years ago and remains one of the most ...

The transition from swimming to walking involved some awkward first steps, according to a new study that recreated how one of the first animals, which left the sea for land, moved. The study found ...

What is the 'most Canadian' animal? Spoiler: it's not the beaver, or the moose. A new study ranks species of terrestrial vertebrates in Canada by their level of Canadian evolutionary distinctness: the ...

Modern-day scorpions impress and terrify with their quick reflexes and venomous sting. But these monsters have an ancient lineage — one that stretches back to the earliest years of animal life on ...

Our four-legged companions and the wild animals that populate our planet are increasingly developing diseases we thought were ...