Animals all face the same challenges: finding enough to eat and surviving long enough to pass on their genes. While there are endless ways Nature has addressed these challenges, it sometimes arrives at the same solution ...

Today the United States government, in concert with a number of conservation groups, sent a powerful message to poachers by crushing more than a ton of illegally-traded elephant ivory in the middle of Times Square. “Many ...

NOAA scientists have discovered that a large ocean-going fish, called the opah, is fully warm-blooded. Their study, published in the journal Science, shows that the fish’s active style of swimming and a heat exchange ...

The black snub-nosed monkey (also known as the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey) is a medium-sized primate species named for its black fur and a distinctive upturned nose, which results from a lack of nasal bones. Adult females ...

Researchers have found a small frog species that can rapidly change its skin texture from spiny to smooth and back again. It is believed to be the first known amphibian species to have this skin-morphing ability. The ...

The leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus fimbriatus) is a large tree-dwelling reptile found in Eastern Madagascar. It gets the name uroplatus – which means “flat tail” – from its broad leaf-shaped tail ...

The kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) is a large flightless parrot native to New Zealand. It adapted to life on the ground because New Zealand has few natural terrestrial predators. They are accomplished climbers, using ...

The blue dragon (Glaucus atlanticus) is a type of mollusk known as a nudibranch. Despite its impressive appearance, it rarely grows larger than three centimeters long.