On a small island in the South Pacific Ocean, a rare species once declared extinct in the wild has been rediscovered. Partula ...

These endangered pachyderms must eat upwards of 330 pounds of low-calorie vegetation per day to sustain themselves. Yet how they find the best ways to get their greens remains elusive. Data from ...

Researchers said the species was “abundant” but “difficult to capture” as it evaded their light traps in the tree canopy.

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Dr. Jaret Daniels, a co-author of the study and curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has witnessed some of these pressures firsthand. He noted that Florida harbors ...

Conservation groups look for new strategies, tech to halt vaquita decline ...

The lansan tree is found only on the Windward Islands of Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Saint Lucia. Its main stronghold is the island of Saint Lucia, where the tree plays a vital ecological, ...

Meanwhile, just less than a week ago, this publication reported that as poachers have been known to trespass, kill and steal game meat; now they are illegally harvesting endangered trees. Last Monday, ...

These scales are pigmented and collectively create the different colors and patterns on the wings. Lepidoptera—the order of insects to which butterflies and moths belong—is in fact Greek for “scaly ...