Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think about the scope of our world’s diversity, ...

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Due to its vast size — stretching from Canada and Greenland in the north, to Mexico in the south — North America contains a vast range of habitats. From land to sea, there are forests, mountains, ...

Learn how to protect horses and cattle from wildfires with defensible space planning and smart evacuation strategies for ...

This weekend, Humboldt Community Animal Response Team (HumCART) hosted a Large Animal Technical Rescue Certification training at the Redwood Acres fairgrounds in Eureka. The event brought together ...

The debate has raged for decades: Was it humans or climate change that led to the extinction of many species of large mammals, birds, and reptiles that have disappeared from Earth over the past 50,000 ...

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

Being able to react to stimuli allows organisms to survive. Be it identifying a visual threat and evading it or sensing pain when an extremity finds the edge of furniture and retracting that limb, ...