Africa has several different types of habitats from jungles and forests to grasslands and deserts. The second-largest ...

With increasing human presence, there was some shifting. Animals that were primarily diurnal in some places, would shift to more nocturnal, or vice versa. We also noticed body size played a huge ...

which captures the difference in appearance of diurnal and nocturnal species. "The satisfying thing is the fingerprint captures color pattern properties we believe are efficient visual signaling ...

Three coyote attacks in two days prompted the city of Atlantic Beach to issue an advisory the public, calling it "a serious ...

This spring is the 26th I’ve spent on Martha’s Vineyard. From the very start of that run, Correllus State Forest established ...

Coyotes are naturally diurnal (most active at dawn and dusk) but often shift to more nocturnal activity in urban and suburban areas in an effort to avoid people. Coyotes prefer open space and ...

This nocturnal lifestyle reduces the need for them ... and the northern pygmy-owl (Glaucidium californicum), are diurnal or crepuscular, meaning they are active during the day or at twilight.

A new species of snake, endemic to Sri Lanka, has been discovered in the biologically rich Maragala mountain range near ...

Most moths are nocturnal; butterflies are essentially moths that have evolved to be diurnal, or active during the day, says Robert Robbins, a curator of lepidoptera at the National Museum of ...