Can protecting elephants and whales help mitigate climate change?

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, ...

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 ...

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

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’ ...