From pollinating plants to dispersing seeds, birds play a variety of crucial roles that help to keep ecosystems in balance.

One bird spectacle readily observable in Allegheny County right now comes in the form of 100 purple martins swirling above ...

While plants often have mutually beneficial relationships with insects, a tuber in Fiji grows separate compartments for ...

In the tropical rainforests of Fiji, a genus of unusual plants has developed a remarkably simple but highly effective way to prevent ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Non-native, feral honeybees are crowding out native bee species in southern California — and it could have knock-on effects ...

The collection, titled “Call of the Wild,” was rooted in the Amazon rainforest, and first looks were a collaboration with longtime muse, Brazilian artist Thayna Caiçara. Many pieces were handcrafted ...

Meet the Spiny Devil Katydid, scientifically known as Panacanthus cuspidatus, one of the most fascinating and uniquely weird insects roaming our planet. Native to the dense rainforests of South ...

Purple martins roost in large numbers of hundreds of thousands of individuals to prepare for their annual migration to South ...

There is everything from garden paths with manicured surroundings to more wild routes with some elevation changes. There are ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, poetry slam and drag king competitions are in town, it’s ...

Ever since Komodo National Park was declared one of the new Seven Wonders of Nature and a UNESCO World Heritage site, there ...