Marc Wolf steps off a trail at the Mountaintop Arboretum to examine a beech tree with mottled, bumpy bark. “This is pretty typical of beech bark disease,” he said. “Beech trees would typically have a ...

Fossil discovery pushes the history of Australian tree frogs back 55 million years, reshaping our understanding of their ...

The existence of any prehistoric apex predators in the islands of the Caribbean used to be doubted. While their absence would have probably made it even more of a paradise for prey animals, fossils ...

I’ve seen this species alive in the wild twice during my own fieldwork,” says Diego Cisneros-Heredia, an ecologist at the San ...

Learn more about some recent new species discoveries: ...

Researching plant species on the eastern slopes of the Andean rainforest in South America, a botanist with Marie Selby ...

Researchers have discovered an ancient moth-like sea predator in a treasure trove of museum fossils in Canada. The ...

At least 50 gray wolves live in California now, a success story for environmentalists and headache for ranchers ...

Case follows a USC study that found previously unknown toxins in retardant dropped by airplanes during wildfires.

Evidence of this explosion is present throughout the Burgess Shale, leading to its establishment as a world heritage site by UNESCO in 1981, NPS said. Yoho National Park is in the Canadian Rockies of ...

After four years of closure, Crystal Cave is reopening this month in Sequoia National Park. Learn why it was closed, how to ...