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Australia has already lost at least 100 species since European colonisation. Across land and freshwater habitats, 1,657 species are currently threatened with the same fate. Their populations have fallen 2-3% every year over the last quarter century.

Modern scrub mints, delicate flowering plants that grow mostly in Florida, likely result from ancient hybridization, according to a recent study I published with colleagues.

Experts say long term trend towards more shark attacks is partly because of population growth, and that the risk remains low

With bunches of lettuce and bucketloads of nuts, London Zoo kicked off its annual animal count Friday, coaxing everything from goats to gorillas out of their enclosures for the celebrated stocktake.

Five Asiatic lions, seven western lowland gorillas, three reticulated giraffes, 53 Darwin’s frogs, 65 Humboldt penguins…it’s been a busy day at London Zoo as our zookeepers have begun the mammoth task of counting every animal for our annual stocktake, a headcount of every animal in our care.

Armed with calculators and clipboards, zookeepers entered every enclosure this week to fulfil a licensing requirement by tallying up every mammal, bird, reptile and invertebrate

Experts say sighting of orca in Puget Sound with second deceased calf is ‘devastating’ for ailing population

Tahlequah had carried her other dead female calf for more than two weeks seven years ago

An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that carried her dead calf for over two weeks in 2018 is doing so once again following the death of her new calf