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 ...

Biological diversity, or "biodiversity," refers to variability found at all levels of biology. Biodiversity is commonly broken down into three levels or types: genetic diversity, species diversity, ...

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 ...

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 ...