Learn about the discovery of an extinct giant kangaroo from New Guinea.
Scientists have found that dugongs and green sea turtles help plants called seagrasses grow in the Great Barrier reef. Why is this important? Keep reading to learn more. This is the world-famous Great Barrier Reef: The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system…
Ecosystem services are things nature provides for humans that help us survive and stay healthy. For example, plants produce oxygen that helps us breathe. Plants also provide food and shelter for us. Bats provide ecosystem services to people too. Bats help pollinate plants that provide us with…
Learn about the discovery of a tiny new frog species in northern Costa Rica.
Meet a hermit crab and a newly described anemone that it carries on its shell.
Scientists have reported that some wild stingrays produce short, loud clicking sounds. Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons is a marine scientist and stingray expert at Macquarie University in Australia. In 2018, Joni received an unusual stingray video from a colleague. It showed a mangrove whipray gliding over a…
Project Taramea trains young Māori divers in the Cook Islands to remove crown-of-thorns starfish that eat corals.
Chimpanzees are the closest living relatives of humans. Like us, chimpanzees use technology. Jane Goodall discovered chimpanzees using twigs to go “fishing” for termites by sticking them in the holes of termite mounds and eating the termites that grab the twig. Chimpanzees may use some plants as medicines…
Old McDonald had a farm – EI-EI-O, and on that farm he had some tropical marine fish. EI-EI-wait, what?
Moth Week 2022 is July 23-31. You can become a moth-er…
A group of scientists from England and Hungary wanted to find proof that tropical birds really are more colorful than their temperate cousins. To do this, they used special imaging technology…
Earth is a fantastic place. There are so many species of plants, animals, and fungi that we know about. And there are so many more left to discover! Meet some newly discovered and described species: a tapir frog that looks like a real chocolate frog…