Scientists discover 1,500th species of bat
Laura Torrent did not know that the tiny brown bat she caught in early 2024 would become a…
Photographer’s Bat Portraits Capture Their Unique Personalities
José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca A photographer whose biology work brings him up close and personal with bats captures incredible…
How Habitable Will Earth Be When We Search for Life Beyond Our Planet? • The Revelator
As we prepare to look for life in other solar systems, we should also look inward at what…
The Funniest Wildlife Photos of the Year Will Have You Roaring With Laughter
The lions in the above photo may look like they’re having a good laugh, but wildlife photographer Bret…
The Permafrost’s “Revenant” Microbes Are Slowly Awaking. This Is Bad News for Climate Change
Thawing permafrost in Alaska. Image credits: Brandt Meixell/USGS. The frozen, barren soil of the Arctic isn’t as lifeless…
First Nature Reserve to Record 10,000 Species in UK–Thanks to Moth That Looks Like a Wasp
River at Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire, England By Naturenet CC BY-SA 3.0 A nature reserve has…
Global loss of mountain vegetated landscapes and its impact on biodiversity conservation
Mapping global mountain vegetated landscapes We first mapped MVL in 2000 as a base map from which to…
Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science
Not only is this species new to science, but this remarkable individual is the first record of a…
Chris Packham: ‘We’re precipitating an extermination rather than an extinction event’
Wildlife broadcaster Chris Packham’s kinship with the natural world began before he could even speak. As a young…
UNESCO designates 26 new biosphere reserves amid biodiversity challenges and climate change
An Indonesian archipelago that’s home to three-fourths of Earth’s coral species, a stretch of Icelandic coast with 70%…
Rarest Monkeys Now Number Close to 2,000 Thanks to One Man’s Jane Goodall-like Passion
A golden snub-nosed monkey in Tanjiahe National Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province – credit, David Blank CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.…
Scientists Discover New “Ghost” Species of Marsupial, Closely Related to the Kangaroo
Bettong illustration. Credit: Nellie Pease Scientists have discovered a new species of marsupial in Australia’s bushland, closely related…