How the Pirates built a “golden age” with record-shattering success after decades of high school football futility.

An international team of scientists has described seven new species of Madagascar's elusive diamond frogs (Rhombophryne), ...

Scientists working in the Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve in Manaus have made a discovery that’s changing our understanding of the life cycle of these zombie fungi. Once thought to be highly specific in ...

North America's largest blackwater swamp, the Okefenokee is a biodiverse wonderland. Thirty-nine fish, 37 amphibians, 64 reptiles, 234 birds, and 50 mammal species call it home.  The refuge's 353,981 ...

A team led by researchers at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), in Manaus, has found evidence that the ...

A different type of moss to the one studied. (Oliver Strewe/Getty Images Plus) Mosses are some of the earliest plants that ...

An area famous for its sea otter population has been named one of the world's top 20 birdwatching destinations in a new global study. Moss Landing, on California's Central Coast, is home to a harbor, ...

China has tested a desert moss that may one day be used to colonise Mars by reviving it inside a mini space laboratory, state broadcaster CCTV said on Monday. The plant, a highly drought-resistant ...

Moss is usually thought of as one of nature's simplest plants. It carpets rocks, clings to tree trunks and quietly survives in places where many other forms of life struggle. In deserts, some mosses ...

A gentle shower fell as four people in rain gear made their way deep into a spruce-fir forest high in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Ducking beneath bright green underbrush and stepping away ...

Analysis: Many moss species act like natural sponges, absorbing several times their own weight in water and releasing it slowly over time Moss could offer environmental benefits over grass, from ...

The Rice's whale is a critically endangered species with only about 51 individuals remaining. This species, which lives exclusively in the Gulf of Mexico, faces threats from oil and gas drilling.