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The Trump administration plans to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species in a move environmentalists say would lead to the extinction of critically endangered species because of logging, mining, ...
In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the absurdly long pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these landscapes in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain are open-canopied and sunny, more grassland than forest, ...
Fall migration is happening earlier for a North American bird species that is already in rapid decline, adding pressure to its chances for survival.
While there is an astounding variety of physical differences in wildlife that humans can easily observe, new research from Drexel University's College of Arts and Sciences reveals that there is likely even more variation ...
Australia is a place of great natural beauty, home to many species found nowhere else on Earth. But it's also particularly vulnerable to introduced animals, diseases, and weeds. Habitat destruction, pollution, and climate ...
Researchers have tracked 89 northern saw-whet owls (Aegolius acadicus) along a migration corridor in Western Montana, underscoring the efficacy of telemetry studies for detailed investigations into the movements of birds.
An article appearing in BioScience challenges conventional conservation wisdom, suggesting that protected areas such as national parks and designated wilderness areas must embrace natural landscape dynamics rather than trying ...
Bird flu has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the price of eggs soaring in the United States since it was first detected in North America in late 2021.
On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn't look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, and a pronounced strut in its walk, typical of most other doves. You'd be forgiven for overlooking it in favor ...
An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in fossilized Mesozoic mammals, that they most likely had dark, uniformly dull fur coloring. In their paper ...
