Torn off from the Indian subcontinent some 88 million years ago, it’s a Petri dish of endemic evolution: the Texas-sized island is home to half of the world’s chameleon species (including this tiny ...

The ocean was calm and flecked with sails when I arrived one morning at the beach in Ambolimailaky, a fishing village in the ...

Nature is full of evolutionary selflessness. From deep-sea octopuses to certain marsupials, there are animals and insects ...

National Reptile Awareness Day is celebrated annually on October 21 to foster appreciation for these often-misunderstood cold ...

Lutz Pfannenstiel is driving through a tunnel on a Missouri freeway.

Well, just 25 miles from downtown Los Angeles lies the antidote to urban chaos – Malibu Creek State Park, a 8,215-acre slice of paradise tucked away in the Santa Monica Mountains near Calabasas.

Peace Parks Foundation works to restore cross-border conservation areas in southern Africa and was involved in the animal ...

The images, taken recently in South Africa’s Rogge Cloof Nature Reserve, show that the wildcats are much more adaptable than we thought. A male cheetah recently released into Rogge Cloof Nature ...

As the birds formerly known as “jackass penguins” struggle to find food, South Africa debates whether to give them a leg up by banning commercial fishing near their island colonies. The African ...

New York — The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), legislation that has been the cornerstone of the U.S.-African commercial relationship for the last 25 years, is set to expire on September ...