The nation's highest court has kept the door open for environmental groups to prosecute law-breaking loggers when regulators won't, dealing another blow to the native timber industry.

Photo credit: Angelika W Yellow-bellied sliders, eastern painted turtles, and river cooters crowd onto fallen trees in numbers that would make Manhattan apartment dwellers feel spacious by comparison.

Photo credit: Angelika W Yellow-bellied sliders, eastern painted turtles, and river cooters pile onto fallen logs in such numbers that they resemble reptilian apartment complexes, each resident ...

Snakes are found in many different habitats throughout the world. Most are landbound, but others, like the yellow-bellied sea snake, live in bodies of water. Besides rainforests, snakes live in ...

Turns out this year’s pollen season is covering more than our cars in a blanket of yellow. The latest spotting of this “rare yellow alligator” was on Kiawah Island at the Cassique Golf Course.

The exception is the yellow-bellied sea snake, which ventures into the open ocean, spanning from Africa eastward across the Pacific to the west coast of the Americas. This comprehensive guide to sea ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Conner Philson, University of California, Santa Barbara and Daniel T. Blumstein ...

A small group of wild yellow-bellied marmots near the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado. (D.T. Blumstein) In the traditional view of how evolution works, natural selection acts on an ...