Surprisingly, most species on Earth are rare, meaning that they exist in small numbers, and only a few are common...
The Mediterranean Sea is one of the largest seas in the world and has a great diversity of marine species. Currently...
Citizens around the world can act like scientists by providing important information about biodiversity that can help...
During five previous mass extinction events, many of Earth’s species died out in a relatively short period of time–like...
Usually, it is easy to tell species apart by what they look like, for example, a blue whale and a horse. Chinstrap and...
Many of the plants and animals we love, and even more we do not know about, are in serious danger. Species extinctions...
When looking around outside, many people see reasons to worry about the environment. Often what they notice are the...
All living creatures exist within ecological communities, and they have important interactions with other creatures...
When parents of two different species have babies together, those babies are called hybrids. In nature, hybrids are...
Dogs are working alongside humans to help protect animals in the wild that are endangered. People who work in the field...
Did you ever eat too much salty popcorn? What happened afterwards? You probably became really thirsty. There was so...
Mesosaurs are lizard-like reptiles that lived at the beginning of the Permian Period (280–290 million years ago) or...
