The metallic poison frog, active during daytime hours, has a long-lasting trill, or call, of 21–45 notes. While perched on leaves, the males begin calling out at dawn and vocalize for several hours ...

Giant kangaroos stayed local, and rapid climate change gradually destroyed their lush rainforest home, leading to extinction.

A group of Brazilian researchers has, for the first time in the entire Atlantic Rainforest, estimated the population density ...

On Rossel Island, Kraus found Dendrelaphis melanarkys, or the black net tree snake. This 4-foot, 11-inch reptile is easier to ...

Imagine gliding through an underwater cathedral, sunlight streaming in golden shafts, illuminating vast towers of swaying ...

Doug Tallamy is an entomologist, author and arguably the father of the modern native plants movement. His decades-long research has identified dozens of “keystone” species that are a basis of ...

University of Delaware entomologist Doug Tallamy’s research has identified “keystone” plant species that make up the foundation of many U.S. ecosystems by producing food for native insects ...

About 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to ...

Anna Yu, a Fort de Soto ranger who helps care for the tortoises, tells The Guardian that they are “keystone” animals, meaning they share their burrows with other species. And they’re very ...