The H5N1 avian influenza virus — bird flu — is now spreading with costly and terrifying rapidity worldwide among wild birds ...

In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps ...

On the morning of Jan. 5, a soldier deployed at the Chitwan National Park shot a wild elephant (Elephas maximus) after it ...

Wild animals are no longer just in forests and national parks—they’re thriving in U.S. suburbs! From raccoons to coyotes, ...

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

Learn more about the natural history of urban wildlife species you may have come across during your time in Berkeley.

You know that feeling — one minute you’re hot, the next freezing. Nothing stays down, and all you do is lay on the couch, hoping ...

Ashley Horton and her family learned to live alongside coyotes after moving to town a little more than two years ago — but in recent weeks, Horton said, these wild canines have come a little too close ...

Ethical debates about the morality of driving tend to stop at the possible harm to humans. This is surprising, considering ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

In the vast urban sprawl of Arizona, the habitat of the tiny western burrowing owl is being destroyed—prompting ...

Red wolves once ranged far and wide across the U.S., helping them earn the nickname “America's wolf.” But there are now ...