President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill creating the Assateague Island National Seashore with its ink, thus saving a pristine portion of Maryland’s Atlantic Coast from becoming a tangle of ...

From invasive rodents to failed biological control, here’s the story of an island that stared ... [+] ecological destruction in the face and brought several species back from the brink of ...

But those bison are also an invasive species, not native to the Golden State. The mammals’ very existence threatens Catalina Island’s entire ecosystem, scientists said. The bison ...

Off the coast of New Caledonia in the south Pacific, two new species of small fish were discovered ... into the water around the French territory island, according to a study published Dec ...

Each of the snails reintroduced on Bugio has been individually marked so they can be carefully monitored on the island. If successful, many more snails will join them to help give the species a ...

Three of the new species — Haliclona pahua, Haliclona kahoe and Haliclona loe — are new to science, Toonen said. They were found in Kaneohe Bay off the island of Moku o Loe, he said ...

The seahorse relative was originally found in 2021 in the cool temperate waters surrounding the North Island of New Zealand, but the species described this year was discovered in the subtropical ...

Published Dec. 17 | Read More | 3-foot-long predator found at air force base in Oman turns out to be new species Scientists found a 3-foot-long predator at an air force base on Masirah Island and ...

Scientists bought a popular clawed animal from a pet trader and discovered a new species from Indonesia ... Indonesian part of New Guinea,” an island north of Australia that also includes ...

Scientists described numerous new species this past year, from the world’s smallest otter in India to a fanged hedgehog from Southeast Asia, tree-dwelling frogs in Madagascar, and a new family ...