Each week, "Flying Horse" features dozens of Central Illinois children's thoughts and drawings on various topics. This week: ...

What makes the Kermode bear so special, and how does it thrive despite its arresting white coat? Here's what scientists ...

The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's greatest natural resources, both in terms of the resources it contains and its role in producing oxygen and cleaning the world's air. The forest stores up ...

Provides an introduction to Earth's biomes, explaining how they are communities of living organisms shaped by climate and geography. Key factors influencing biomes include light and water availability ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

Wooden wildebeest, gorillas, and giraffes are among the lifesize wooden animals The Herds project is heading through 10 ...

Remarkable research has unlocked new understanding of the mysterious ways trees communicate and share knowledge with each ...

The number of species does not increase evenly when going from local ecosystems to continental scales—a phenomenon ecologists ...

One day after the Los Angeles Zoo announced its intention to relocate its last two remaining Asian elephants to a 17-acre preserve in Tulsa, Oklahoma, City Councilmember Bob Blumenfield introduced ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...

Scientists revisited tracks made by a shorebird, a lizard, a cat-like predator and some sort of large herbivore at what is ...