The Lesser Antillean iguana is a critically endangered species that has vanished from much of the Eastern Caribbean. Among ...

How do intermittent events like hurricanes impact natural selection? How do animals adapt to challenging weather? A ...

Hurricane Melissa tore a path of destruction across Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa tore a path of destruction across Jamaica after the storm made landfall on Tuesday as a Category 5 hurricane, one of the ...

It was the first time since 2015 that no hurricanes directly impacted the U.S. The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season proved to be consequential, even though no hurricanes made landfall in the U.S for the ...

We'd like to welcome this curious armless burrowing lizard into the New Species Hall of Fame. Despite being built for life underground, in the end this slider skink was no match for scientists who had ...

The 2025 hurricane season is drawing to a close without a single one making landfall in the continental United States — for the first time in a decade. After developing in tropical Atlantic waters ...