Ever flushed a toilet in the Australian outback and seen a frog staring back at you? These so-called “dunny frogs”—famous for ...

Amphibians are notably fragile in a warming world due to their dependence on external sources to regulate body heat.

Discover eight incredible species that were rediscovered after decades of being thought extinct. Learn how conservation ...

Peto’s paradox is that bigger, longer-lived species should have higher cancer prevalence, yet they don’t seem to. Back in ...

The rediscovery of “one of the rarest and most elusive amphibians” in Chile is quite a tale. Philibert Germain, a scientist ...

With midterms, papers due, and scheduling office hours, the biodiversity of the UVic campus invites students to be grounded ...

The end-Permian mass extinction event, 252 million years ago, was the largest ever, marked by the loss of as many as 90% of species. A key line of research has been to focus on the survivors and their ...

Recent conservation efforts have led to the rediscovery of eight species previously thought to be extinct, from Wallace's ...

A Danish study has found that Common Racoon Dog poses no threat to ground-nesting birds, despite assumptions that the ...

Cloud forests are biodiversity hot spots and crucial water sources. But climate change and deforestation are shrinking their range, new data show.

A longstanding scientific belief about a link between cancer prevalence and animal body size has tested for the first time in our new study ranging ...

The king cobra, belonging to the Ophiophagus genus, is distinct from true cobras in the Naja genus. Notable for its enormous ...