Even if we can't see them, microorganisms are everywhere, inextricably linked to life on Earth at every level. They range from pathogenic bacteria and viruses that can make us sick to the microbes ...

Snakes live almost everywhere on Earth, except the polar regions, where it’s too cold for these cold-blooded animals. Snakes ...

With its intricate, patterned shell, the near-threatened Karoo tent tortoise is a unique and hard-to-find resident of South ...

Prochlorococcus, a genus of bacteria that’s key to oxygen production in the ocean, tends to disappear when faced with marine ...

Movement ecologists study how animals move in ecosystems together with other individuals of the same or other species. When ...

BC: One of the greatest myths is about the Great Snake—a huge snake that is said to inhabit the Amazon River and sleep ...

When hummers contract fungal infections, their tongues swell and become difficult to retract. That can put them at risk of ...

It’s one of the most well-known populations of free ... food and water to support horses and other local animals—which is increasingly common both because of climate change and growing horse ...

The Ocean Cleanup, the international non-profit with the mission to rid the world’s oceans of plastic, has announced, at the ...