Birds like the warm weather in Los Angeles just as much as humans. Author and birding expert Noah Strycker shares the best ...

A new survey has highlighted the “growing disconnect” between Australians and their native wildlife. While kangaroos and wombats are well-known Aussie animals, other native fauna appears more easily ...

About one in six NSW, QLD and Vic residents think foxes are native animals and a third believe quolls are introduced, survey shows Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Most ...

Somewhere off the coast of Alaska, a whale swimming today may have been alive before the invention of the telephone. Elsewhere, buried in the sand of the Pacific Northwest or resting in the cold ...

For the first time in a century, researchers say they’ve identified a new species of wild cat previously unknown to science. Leopardus tilcayo — or the tilcayo tiger cat — is slender and spotted, with ...

The Native News Project is a new initiative from MPR News. Stay informed with the latest news about local and national Native American communities, highlighting stories and issues important to Native ...

Many things can influence how much harm an oil spill causes. The impacts depend on where the oil is spilled, what kinds of wildlife are found there, and the amount and type of the oil, among other ...

Good rainfall and growing resistance to viruses are to blame for growing populations around the country, scientists say Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air ...

Relentlessly hunted for its scales, the mysterious armored pangolin is vanishing throughout Africa. Now scientists are trying to unlock the secrets that could help save it.

It has been more than a century since bilbies, bandicoots and burrowing bettongs roamed freely across outback New South Wales. Their local extinction here and throughout most of Australia's mainland ...

Deep in the Bolivian Yungas cloud forests, there stalks an utterly adorable beast: smaller than a house cat and spotted like a leopard, the creature has long been known to local communities as a ...

From poems to films and books of history, horses feature widely in Australian popular culture. Feral horses, also known as brumbies, are descendants of domesticated horses that now live and breed ...