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In 2015, research on global forest cover revealed a concerning fact: 70% of the world’s remaining forest now lies within 1km of the forest’s edge. This process, called fragmentation, is causing the deepest and darkest parts of the world’s forests to shrink.

Oarfish swim vertically, moving up and down and side to side like a cursor. It would be easier to believe they do not exist

By keeping rodents under control, owls help maintain the natural balance of Ghana's forests. But superstitious beliefs have led to attacks on the birds. Kwabena Poku Bosompim, regional director of the Forestry Commission in the Ahafo region of Ghana, is on a mission to save the country's owls.

Animals that engage in same-sex sexual behaviour have been considered a ‘Darwinian paradox’: if reproduction is critical to evolution, then non-reproductive behaviour should have ceased to exist. Yet a new study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, has found that rhesus macaque males often engage in same-sex sexual behaviour without…

Manx Wildlife Trust said they need two enthusiastic volunteers to conduct the 11-week survey.

Indian eagle-owls have recently been classified as a species distinct from Eurasian eagle-owls. They are imposing birds, with a wingspan of 6ft and ear tufts that may ward off predators. Little is known about them as they are nocturnal, but they are found across the Indian peninsula and are not…

Orchid farming is a hobby for many and an income-generating activity for others. For V.U. Sabu, an innovative farmer at Pothukety in Wayanad, it is a mission to collect and propagate wild orchids.

Violent interactions with humans off the Iberian coast have caused alarm but mystery still surrounds the apex predators

Using a 140-year-old piece of brain tissue, we may know more about the Tasmanian tiger’s brain than before.