The research, published in Urban Naturalist, examined vertebrate species inhabiting Florida’s stormwater sewer systems.Specifically, the team focused on Alachua County. Using camera traps in 39 ...

If you live in an urban environment, it might seem like the animals you see every day—birds, bugs, squirrels—have adapted perfectly fine to city life. The team combed through years of iNaturalist data ...

Sure, there are imitators, but there's only one Punxsutawney Phil. The famous groundhog "lives" in a tree stump, Gobbler's ...

A new study argues that religion, politics and war affect how animals and plants in cities evolve, and the confluence of ...

Important factors are the places where the animals are found and their level of popularity - squirrels and ladybugs come out on top here. The results have important implications for urban planning ...

Don’t let the rats fool you. Although the pizza-pilfering vagabonds – and a variety of other creatures – thrive in cities, for many wild animals urban environments are unappealing homes ...

Research shows 93% of behaviors are different from those of rural members of the same species. Many animals are able to adapt to our presence and we must work toward coexistence.

As cities sprawl further out into the surrounding natural landscape, or slice through forests, encounters between humans and urban wildlife are increasing — often to the detriment of the animal.

Three roosters at the Evergreen Park Urban Barn are famous for greeting visitors with loud crowing, one trying to outdo the other in cock-a-doodle-doos. “They’re doing it because they w… ...

One of Europe’s most common birds, the Great Tit, shows an amazing adaptability to human-made habitats. There seem to be no limits for this species when it comes to inventing new ways of ...

Four hundred local fourth, fifth and sixth grade students will have the opportunity to become urban scientists with resources made possible through a new, three-year $1.17 million grant from the ...