Nature & Wildlife

A new tree species discovered in an Indigenous area is already threatened

In celebration of Earth Day, Asian elephant calf Linh Mai will make her public debut April 22.

An update from Robbie Clark, elephant manager and acting curator of Elephant Trails.

From fine-scale movements to continental migrations, learn why scientists are tracking Virginia's birds as they fly.

Vital to some, pests to others. No other animals symbolize America’s complicated relationship with the Great Plains quite like prairie dogs.

Blue crabs are “notoriously cannibalistic,” especially in brackish, mid-salinity zones of the Chesapeake. But shallow waters offer a refuge.

The birds are breeding earlier, and more of their chicks are surviving. But researchers fear this success may not last

Scientists determined that the upper part of a cat’s spine is more flexible than the lower part