Kim Ballare was a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service until her federal grant “got snatched away.” ...

On islands, many plants rely on animals such as birds, bats and reptiles to disperse their seeds and help them grow in new ...

Among mammals, females generally live longer. The recent comparative study examined 528 mammal species in zoos and found that 72% showed a female life expectancy advantage, averaging 12% longer lives ...

Nature is full of evolutionary selflessness. From deep-sea octopuses to certain marsupials, there are animals and insects ...

Snakes, like most reptiles in the world, are oviparous. This means that rather than producing live young ones, the way mammals do, snakes produce an immature single cell — an egg. Most snakes follow ...