When animals move through 3D spaces, the neat system of grid cell activity they use for navigating on flat surfaces gets more disorderly. That has implications for some ideas about memory and other ...

The natural world is under siege by climate change. Rising temperatures are pushing plants and animals outside their current range. To keep pace with climate change, species will need a path to follow ...

The life-or-death journey made by mule deer during the second-longest big game migration in North America came down to their ability to squeeze through a fence -- a discovery made by scientists using ...

Efforts to create regional genetic databases of threatened animals could help wildlife experts protect them. In a study published this week, scientists at the University of Washington, in Seattle, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Feb. 22, 2018 photo provided by the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife, scientists Jen Vashon, left, and Tanya ...

A research team involving Yale University and the University of Colorado Boulder has developed a first public demonstration version of its “Map of Life,” an ambitious Web-based endeavor designed to ...

A group of scientists unveiled the first results Thursday of an ambitious effort to map the genes of tens of thousands of animal species, a project they said could help save animals from extinction ...