A three-year study in northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana found that -- even at small scales -- emergent wetlands or ponds support many wetland bird species. The study also found that, at ...

Just like humans have homes, animals also have places they live. The places where animals live are called habitats. Also, ...

Amphibians across the tropics are facing a global decline, with disease caused by the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) playing an especially significant role in losses. According to ...

Scientists found that from 1995-2021, occupancy of boulder habitats by lobsters dropped 60%. Meanwhile, the number of lobsters residing in sediment or featureless ledge habitats increased 633% and 280 ...

As humans continue to expand into nature, our impact on wildlife movements will only increase. But proposed new legislation is hoping to mitigate those issues. In June, California Senator Alex Padilla ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Temple University biology professor Erik Cordes about the discovery of the world's largest known deep-sea coral habitat. Now we want to take you to the bottom of the ...

Escherichia coli cycles between two principal habitats-intestines of warm-blooded animals and water, sediment, and soil-that are shown to be quite distinct with respect to physical conditions and the ...

Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola’s mounting frustration with the largely Seattle-based pollock industry’s decades-old issue of inadvertently damaging the state’s rapidly declining crab populations and ...

Do Butterflies Rest When It Rains? Anytime a hurricane threatens here in the South, we get a lot of questions at the butterfly free-flight exhibit where I work about what we do to protect the ...