The UC Davis department of entomology and nematology is not the place you would normally expect to find a research scientist who is developing a completely new understanding of how ...

While the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park are best known for rare and endangered animals such as giant pandas, koalas and ...

If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

GRO Trust is kicking off a new program designed to “nurture young minds through nature, agriculture and the arts,” according ...

While both of these grains are good sources of carbohydrates and fiber, quinoa is the better choice if you're aiming to ...

A team co-led by a Purdue University researcher has found that groups of fungi influence global tree species in distinct ways ...

Not much, but people should still be very cautious around these animals. " Coyotes have become a concern in some urban and suburban areas in Wisconsin," Craven, Pellitteri and Renz wrote.

These strange and amazing plants show us that the plant world is full of surprises. Here are 10 plants that behave in ways you’d never expect—moving, feeling and acting almost like animals.

The zoo’s Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW) uses liquid nitrogen tanks to store and preserve samples of plants and animals. This work is done in their CryoBioBank.

Alien plants and animals cost Europe over $1.5 trillion in the last six decades, according to a new study, indicating the global economic impact of such species could be several times higher than ...

The proposal by the U.S. Departments of the Interior and Commerce would limit the regulatory definition of “harm,” radically altering what it means to harm imperiled plants and animals.