Each year on March 3, World Wildlife Day draws global attention to the plants and animals that make life on Earth possible.

The males of the species prepare for mating season by excavating nests for the approval of the females — and even other birds ...

Can Ben Lamm save the planet? He thinks so. Short, stocky and unassuming with a puckish sense of humor, the shaggy-haired ...

A new paper provides the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this is about more than bees.

Groundbreaking study counts species across continents and countries, highlighting urgent gaps in biodiversity knowledge The world has far ...

It is a good time to be a fish in Chautauqua Lake. Whether or not it is a good time to be an angler – that might depend on where you are fishing, the day, the time, the month, or sheer luck. It’s ...

Have they been playing us all along? In this chapter, Rix explores how our favourite flavours and fragrances may have been fed to us by these unmoving giants.

The Galápagos Islands are famous for their biodiversity, especially their giant tortoises. In 2000, however, scientists made a shocking discovery: a population of tortoises 70 miles away on Isabela ...

For the first time in 180 years, giant tortoises walk again on Floreana Island—in largest restoration effort ever undertaken in Galápagos.

Daniel Chong's nimble comedy about an environmental activist infiltrating the animal kingdom feels like the first Pixar movie ...

Giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Floreana Island in the Galapágos, 180 years after going extinct there.