Can protecting elephants and whales help mitigate climate change?

The massive bridge over a 10-lane freeway aims to reconnect habitats and protect animals near Los Angeles.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think about the scope of our world’s diversity, ...

Great herds of elephants once crisscrossed Africa, and scientists have no doubt that they shaped the landscape, ecosystems ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

A new wildlife crossing system is making humans and animals safer in Colorado, officials say. Wildlife-vehicle collisions are ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Scientists have uncovered enormous ancient fleas—almost an inch long. From the cow that tips the scale at a ton to the Great Dane that needs his own ...

When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first time I saw a rhino. It was about 20 years ago, and I was on my first ever ...

The South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) has the largest known genome of the animal kingdom at 91 billion base pairs of DNA. Katherine Seghers, Louisiana State University Scientists have ...

Being able to react to stimuli allows organisms to survive. Be it identifying a visual threat and evading it or sensing pain when an extremity finds the edge of furniture and retracting that limb, ...

Your animals can be affected by wildfire smoke. If you feel the effects of smoke, they probably do too! High levels of smoke are harmful. Exposure to lower levels of smoke can also irritate animals’ ...