Storms are destructive, disorienting forces for most living things. Yet for a surprising range of animals, a developing ...

But University of Florida researchers have found there are a few good things about hurricanes and wildlife and it's not just ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, bordered by the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in ...

The Guam kingfisher (Todiramphus cinnamominus), last seen in the wild in 1988, is making a comeback. Thanks to years of dedication and the steadfast efforts of the Sihek Recovery Program team, Guam ...

In 2014, Felicity Newell joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as a doctoral student, then promptly left the country in search of a tropical spring. It's a concept she started thinking about ...

Humans are not the only species negatively affected by increasingly hot and humid conditions. Intense heat waves sometimes kill large numbers of wild animals. Eastern Australia's giant fruit bats, ...

In tropical regions such as the Amazon and Panama, the populations of some birds have fallen by as much as 90 per cent even in mostly untouched rainforests. Now, research has found that more intense ...

Scientists know comparatively little about the breeding seasons of tropical birds. This point is underscored by a new study that shows insect-eating birds in the tropics can postpone breeding by ...