If some of those animals were unfamiliar to you, you're not alone. I had never heard of a kagu before, and I had to look up a bit more information about the blue grey bird native ...

Only four species of bear are hibernators: American Black Bear, Asiatic Black bear, Brown bear and Polar bear. These furry mammals don’t hibernate in the true sense because their body temperature only ...

When we say something “sticks out like a store thumb,” we mean it’s conspicuous, obvious, or unusual (and typically not in a ...

What happens when the biodiversity witnessed by one generation fades into memory the next? These questions are crossroads at ...

A sensational all-round performance steered MI Cape Town to the SA20 title as they denied two-time champions Sunrisers ...

Take, for example, the bumblebee bat, also known as Kitti’s hog-nosed bat, which weighs only two grams—about the same as two M&Ms. Meanwhile, other mammals are so massive, they shape entire ecosystems ...

All but 17 involved birds. In those cases not involving birds, pilots reported hitting five red foxes, four white-tailed deer, three bats, two skunks, a porcupine, a woodchuck and an unidentified ...

After a decline of over 90 per cent in little brown bats and northern long-eared bats in Nova Scotia, researchers are hopeful the bat population is beginning to stabilize. A disease called white ...

Nearly 14 years after white-nose syndrome began devastating bat populations in New Brunswick, researchers see signs the fungus is receding and bats are becoming more resilient against the disease.

When bats aren't flying, they often dangle from cave ceilings or the undersides of bridges. But why do bats sleep upside down? This topsy-turvy behavior may result from the evolutionary journey ...