A new species, Tanyka amnicola, had one of the strangest jaws ever found. Discover how the living fossil changes what we know ...

While you may not frequently visit humid environments, such as rainforests, the animal life in damp locations may look a bit ...

As Ian Buruma shows in “Stay Alive,” his crisply told and uncomfortably relevant history of wartime Berlin, they feed off the ...

Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the Sun sets in April and does not rise above the horizon again until August. Without sunlight, ...

Join Jack from Australia as he embarks on a year-long survival challenge, building a shelter in the forest using only ...

Study that involved condoms helped scientists discover that cicada mud towers protect against predators and regulate the air.

Reality tends toward entropy, and nature craves balance. The methods behind these maddening processes aren’t pretty, either. Survival of the fittest means that even strong species are at risk of ...

A newly identified Australian tree has been dubbed the “zombie” tree because it’s alive but unable to reproduce. Myrtle rust repeatedly kills its young growth, stopping the species from flowering or ...

A tropical insect has been found to change color from vivid hot pink to green within a fortnight, which scientists believe may mimic the young leaves of rainforest plants. The findings, published this ...

Join me on a 365-day journey in the rainforest of Vietnam, where I rely on natural materials and primitive skills to create shelter, find food, and secure drinking water for survival. The aim is not ...

Throughout the Amazon Rainforest, forest fragmentation represents an escalating and existential threat to the preservation of ...

The temperate rainforests of the Chilean Coast Range are home to a spectacular array of life: iridescent blue lizards, tiny wild cats called kodkods, and curly vines of waxy red bellflowers. Towering ...