Why Mongabay is reporting on California’s biodiversity Mongabay’s coverage of biodiversity has long been associated with ...

Quick Take By the 1880s and 1890s, fewer than 1,000 bison remained in the wild, a stark warning about unchecked exploitation.

While Mother Nature continues to amaze us every day, some wildlife surprises can go from fascinating to straight-up ...

As if something out of a horror movie, a fungus infects spiders and turns them into zombies, causing them to act erratically ...

By Liah Continentino Florida is no stranger to introduced species. From green iguanas to Brazilian pepper, many non-native plants and animals have settled into our environment. While some cause little ...

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

For communities that rely on farming, the stakes are especially high. Crop failures threaten local food supplies, farm ...

Native fungi from forests killed emerald ash borers in lab tests, offering a potential new biological tool to slow the ...

The parasitic mites were found on juvenile arachnids in the Butantan Institute collection. The larvae of Araneothrombium ...

Dr. Nathaniel Ward, a 19th century London physician, had a keen interest in nature, including observing insect behavior. When studying a sphinx moth emerging from a chrysalis he had buried in moist ...

For many, their latest expedition in Baja Sur marks a return, more than a decade after their investigation began.

Following the European Union's ban on harmful pesticides, a recent study has shown that bird populations are slowly ...