Farmers plant or preserve riparian buffers for various reasons, such as improving water quality, controlling erosion, or ...

Analysis - South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago.

Just a few million years after the end-Permian mass extinction event (EPME), aquatic reptiles and other vertebrates had recovered to form thriving and diverse oceanic ecosystems, according to a study ...

Conservationists are hoping to strengthen regulations at a wildlife trade conference on birds, reptiles and other animals ...

The Many Humans of the Globe As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with ...

Scientists have discovered a group of tree-dwelling toads that give birth to live young rather than laying spawn in water. · Although these toads dwell high in the forests of Tanzania’s Eastern Arc ...

An international team of researchers has discovered three new, bizarre, and wart-covered species of tree toads from Tanzania that give birth to fully developed toadlets. A key element of the study was ...

FoDOCS labs made a strong showing at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's Annual Meeting in Birmingham (Nov 11-15), with ...