The most prevalent colors of animals in nature are brown, black, and gray. These colors are important for protection and visual communication. Brown helps wild animals camouflage themselves as they ...

Avoid using a tourniquet, applying ice to the bite site or giving your dog antihistamines or anti-inflammatory painkillers, ...

The wonderful world of tennis is helping nature’s tiniest mammals survive. Each year, following Wimbledon, thousands of used ...

The Animal Liberation Front claims its activists opened several mink cages at a Stark County farm last week, releasing about ...

Two separate cases of zoonotic diseases, hantavirus and rabies, were confirmed at Grand Canyon National Park. A park employee tested positive for hantavirus, while a bat found near the Colorado River ...

With its ample vegetation and hot, humid temperatures, Alabama is the perfect nesting ground for a wide variety of creatures. Suffice it to say that there are also some pretty big insects lurking in ...

Dragonflies are teaching researchers and students about Boise’s ecosystem and unlocking the larger mysteries of the insects’ behavior.

The calliope hummingbird, North America's smallest bird, migrates through Utah each summer. A banding event on July 19 at Red ...

Red squirrels are entertaining and remarkable little mammals. Fleet-of-foot and extraordinary climbers, their specific habits ...

Vitamins got their name in the early 1900s when London-based Polish biochemist Casimir Funk—one of many scientists seeking ...

As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

There are more than 120 species of butterflies in western Pennsylvania, and the North American Butterfly Association wants ...