Yellow-legged hornets are voracious predators of honeybees and other pollinators. One hornet can kill dozens of bees every ...

Studying how much soil herbivores eat shows which species are vulnerable to toxic element exposure from natural or human ...

The smallest bird of prey on the entire African continent, the pygmy falcon weighs about as much as a golf ball. These clever ...

"[This] is not a solution — it's an illusion of action." Officials face backlash over aggressive plan to eradicate wild ...

Fossils unearthed from the cavern provide a "missing volume" in New Zealand’s natural history, say researchers.

Waitomo is a region on New Zealand famous for glittering glowworms that hang from caves. But deep inside a jagged crevice ...

Introduced to control rats, the Small Indian mongoose became one of conservation’s most infamous mistakes. Learn how this ...

A new study comparing 59 species of primates linked same-sex sexual behavior to scarce resources and more predators in socially complex species. The findings show diverse sexual behaviors are common — ...

On a remote Alaskan island, gray wolves are rewriting the rulebook by hunting sea otters — a behavior few scientists ever expected to see. Researchers are now uncovering how these coastal wolves ...

Borneo is one of the few places where you can see orangutans in the wild. It’s also the world’s third–largest island, a ...