At the United Nations biodiversity conference that opened in Montreal on Wednesday, nations aim to create a new global framework for transforming humanity’s relationship with nature. The conference ...

Habitat conversion and fragmentation, logging, illegal hunting, fires: The rainforests and wildlife on Borneo, the third largest island in the world, are highly threatened. Now scientists have ...

Unlike most other small carnivores, skunks have no strategies to avoid predators, a new study finds. Instead, their black and white coloration warns other animals to steer clear. (This is a ...

An international team led by researchers with the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Species ...

In many parts of the world, there is an imbalance in the food chain. Without top predators such as wolves and grizzly bears, smaller meat-eating animals like coyotes and foxes or grazers such as deer ...

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Fossils from extinct dogs show why bigger is not always better: Giant meat-eating animals died out because they relied too heavily on hunting other big animals, scientists reported Thursday. Smaller, ...

The Little Rock Zoo's small-carnivore area is set for demolition, according to a zoo news release issued on Friday. The concrete structure built in 1967 would close beginning the same day, the news ...

For years, scientists have been trying to figure out how small carnivores evolved into land based herbivores. With the discovery of the earliest known ancestor of land herbivores, researchers may be ...

The assumption that adding apex predators to wildlife parks in South Africa benefits smaller animals is in need of more testing, scientists say. By Rachel Nuwer Tourists visit South Africa’s wildlife ...

Researchers have discovered that large predators play a key yet unexpected role in keeping smaller predators and deer in check. Their 'fatal attraction' theory finds that smaller predators are drawn ...