This article originally appeared on The Revelator. Imagine a vast agricultural field, endless rows of soy or corn running for acres in every direction. Now imagine that this field grows where a mighty ...

If you come across a rattlesnake in Michigan, it’s an eastern massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus), the only venomous snake in ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Tropical forest birds, which tend to have wings that are short and round relative to their body length and shape, are more sensitive to habitat fragmentation than the long-, ...

Thami Croeser receives funding from the Ian Potter Foundation. Holly Kirk receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Ian Potter Foundation. Imagine you’re a fairywren living in a ...

I was driving to work yesterday, and a squirrel darted in front of my car. He nearly lost his life. He does it several times a day. Every day. One of these days he won’t make it to the other side. Why ...

Amphibians across the tropics are facing a global decline, with disease caused by the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) playing an especially significant role in losses. According to ...

Introduction : habitat fragmentation and western birds / T. Luke George and David S. Dobkin -- Multi-scale perspective of the effects of forest fragmentation on birds in eastern forests / Frank R.

JACKSON - Pronghorn are less affected by activity on gas fields than on the intense fragmentation of habitat caused by development, according to a first-year study on the animals. Scientists from the ...

It’s a fact of life for drivers in the Lehigh Valley and across Pennsylvania that deer are a constant hazard. It’s also a fact of life for deer and other wildlife in the state that getting from one ...