By Chelsea Jandreau Education Director The cycles found throughout nature are full of endings, fresh starts, and plenty of ...

You most likely envision a fairly immobile object when you think of plants—possibly rooted in soil, quietly photosynthesizing, and not really doing anything. Isn’t that the story of nature’s ...

A collaborative study reveals the distinct mechanisms by which plants and animals respond to climate change in their life-cycle phenology. This research, led by Piao Shilong's team and Zhang Yao's ...

When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him. The animal ...

Staff planned to work long hours to shield trees from wind and cold temperatures. Still, they are also making sure the ...

From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...

Evan Fricke knows exactly how long it takes, after a bird on the island of Saipan eats a piece of fruit, for it to come out the other end (Answer: as little as 10 minutes). "There's always this poop ...

From apples to zebras, all 1.8 million known plant and animal species will be listed in an Internet-based Encyclopedia of Life under a $100 million project, scientists said Tuesday. The 10-year plan, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A goat with an arrow wound nibbles the medicinal herb dittany. O. Dapper, CC BY When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered ...