As a child, Lytle Denny learned where blue grouse, ruffed grouse, sharp-tailed grouse and greater sage grouse lived. A member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, he scouted the high-desert landscape ...

An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our modern ape ancestors.

In the cloud forest of Costa Rica, many canopy-dwelling animals do their business in strangler fig trees, perhaps as a way of leaving messages ...

Bonsai trees are what happen when art and nature come together. While almost any tree species can be used, those with naturally smaller leaves are often easier to train and maintain in these ...

In a remarkable deep-sea breakthrough, researchers have discovered 24 new species of amphipods in the Pacific’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone—including a rare, entirely new superfamily. The findings reveal ...

A new published biodiversity survey found 11 new species, including snakes, geckos, micro-snails, and millipedes, in northern Cambodia.

These dwarf evergreen trees bring year-round appeal to small spaces.

The fifth article in a six-part series looks at expanding the use of western tree species to improve wood substrate supply ...

Mulch can be a threat to your garden's micro-environment, getting in the way of bees and other organisms. Low-growing plants are a great replacement.

Watching birds feast on backyard plants brings life to your garden long after the summer blooms have faded. As insects become ...

A recently published scientific study has found that common wildfire reduction strategies in the Southwest – like tree thinning and prescribed burning – are detrimental for some declining bird ...