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Forests on Indigenous lands in Panama have remained remarkably stable over the past two decades—more so than in protected areas—thanks in no small part to deeply rooted cultural values, a McGill-led study suggests.

The call of American bullfrogs was deafening when scientists from the University of California, Davis, first began researching the impact of invasive bullfrogs on native northwestern pond turtles at Yosemite National Park.

A six-month expedition to the tropical island of New Guinea has led to a remarkable discovery by a young Czech doctoral candidate from the Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the University of South Bohemia. František Vejmělka has become the first person to scientifically document in the wild Mallomys istapantap, one of the largest murine rodents in the world. This elusive...

New research published in BioScience reveals that climate change is rapidly emerging as a third major threat to Earth's wild animals, joining habitat alteration and overexploitation in what scientists call a shift from "twin to triple threats."

New research from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, has revealed that puff adders (Bitis arietans) can be highly efficient at controlling rodent populations that threaten agricultural production on the continent.

It turns out humpback whales' epic migrations to tropical waters aren't as essential as previously thought for giving birth: calves can be born as far south as Tasmania or New Zealand, 1,500 km further south than previously known.

Curtin University research has revealed that high densities of European honey bees could be harming Australian native bees' fitness by reducing their reproductive success and altering key traits linked to survival.

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released a long-term, high-resolution dataset that tracks global cropland water-use efficiency (WUE) from 2001 to 2020. Published in Scientific Data, the dataset provides annual WUE estimates for croplands worldwide at a 1-kilometer spatial resolution. It is expected to be a valuable resource for promoting sustainable agricultural water...

Fertilizer might be stronger than we thought. A new international study featuring faculty members at Binghamton University, State University of New York found that fertilizer can help plants survive short-term periods of extreme drought, findings which could have implications for agriculture and food systems in a world facing climate stressors.

People have assumed climate change solutions that sequester carbon from the air into soils will also benefit crop yields. But a new study from Cornell University finds that most regenerative farming practices to build soil organic carbon—such as planting cover crops, leaving stems and leaves on the ground and not tilling—actually reduce yields in many situations.

On an island off the coast of Panama lives a population of wild primates with a remarkable culture. White-faced capuchins on Jicarón Island in Coiba National Park use stone tools; and scientists have been monitoring this unique tradition with an array of motion-triggered cameras on the island since 2017.

With its golden sand and blue waters, the beachfront in central Israel looks much like any other stretch of Mediterranean coast, but a closer look reveals something unusual peeking through the rippling surf: black shark fins.

Corals everywhere on the planet live in harmony with microscopic organisms. Many corals get their vivid colors from microscopic algae which lives inside the corals' tissue and provides the coral with food. Even in the water surrounding coral reefs, there is a microscopic soup of bacteria, archaea, and other types of microbes that respond to changes in the habitat and can indicate whether or...

In the natural world—where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity—animal behavior is glorious in its variety. Now, new research suggests there may be an underlying architecture that orders the movements of animals as they go about their very different lives. And it's more widespread than previously imagined.

Plants are sprouting from the ground earlier and earlier once the snow has disappeared. This is now happening on average six days earlier than 25 years ago, according to a newly published study by SLF researcher Michael Zehnder and colleagues.

As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists have long worried that mountain species are on an "extinction elevator"—forced to move uphill for cooler temperatures, ultimately accelerating extinction as they run out of space. However, a new study led by Professor I-Ching Chen from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, has challenged this idea by analyzing global data.

The horse originated in North America around four million years ago. As changing sea levels created land bridges between continents, the horse traveled into Eurasia. A team of 57 international researchers—including 18 Indigenous scientists from the Lakota, sqilxʷ (suknaqin/Okanagan Nation), Blackfoot, Dene' (Athabascan) and Iñupiaq Nations—now reveal that inter-continental exchange of horse populations occurred in both directions on multiple occasions.

Schoolchildren in America learn the story of the "three sisters" in agriculture: how Indigenous peoples planted corn, beans and squash in the same plots because these plants thrive together better than when they are planted alone.

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the National Museum of the Czech Republic, has discovered a new species of poison dart frog in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. In their study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, the group ventured deep into the rainforest to learn more about species that live...

Cats, dogs and farm animals are what come to mind when we think of domesticated animals. For ages, domestication has been portrayed as a uniquely human accomplishment, where species become domestic only through our deliberate control.

A new study has compared how migrating humpback whales use two stopover sites along the Queensland coast, finding that one was more social in nature and the other was used primarily by mothers and calves.

When trees and soil fungi form close associations with each other, both partners benefit. Many tree species have further enhanced this cooperation by forming a concurrent symbiosis with two different groups of mycorrhizal fungi. Those trees cope better with water and nutrient scarcity, which is an important trait for forestry in the face of climate warming.

Together, or not together, that is the question. Hamlet is not the only one facing life-changing questions—wild animals have to make decisions pivotal to their survival on a daily basis.

Researchers who were dropped off by helicopter in a largely inaccessible and remote canyon in South Africa say they have discovered a type of gecko that hadn't been seen in more than 30 years and was thought to be extinct—or maybe to have never existed at all.