President Donald Trump's administration has delayed a decision on whether to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies indefinitely despite years of warnings from conservationists that ...

Over the last 12 months our scientists have been busy cataloguing the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth.

To gasps of delight, our guide Nestor Toussaint points out the St Lucia parrot, the island’s vibrant, vocal national bird and ...

Over the last 12 months, scientists from London’s Natural History Museum have been busy collecting, studying and cataloguing the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth. Museum scientists have given ...

The unsung heroes of the U.S.’s natural landscapes offer up everything from miles of hiking trails to rare wildlife and ...

In its native Mexico, the cup-and-saucer vine (Cobaea scandens), also known as cathedral bells or Mexican ivy, is a perennial. Here, the climbing plant is usually cultivated as an annual. Its ...

An international team of scientists have identified nine new species of butterflies using a combination of geographical, ...

An international team discovered new types of butterflies that lay hidden in plain sight at the Natural History Museum.

The Russian Blue cat is a naturally occurring breed known for its silvery blue coat, bright green eyes, and quiet, ...

For Ginny Nelson, it started with an iris bud. “That’s my earliest memory,” she says, recalling her childhood fascination as she watched the deep purple flower bloom in a tabletop vase. Now retired ...

The U.S. and Ukraine’s European allies have put together a plan of security guarantees containing detailed, robust and serious measures to ensure that any peace deal with Russia holds, according ...

Determining whether a budgerigar is male or female isn’t always obvious at first glance–yet identifying the gender is crucial ...