From bold foxes to gregarious birds, animals’ personalities are increasingly being seen as crucial to conservation efforts.

When people think about habitats on Earth, they likely picture forests, oceans or grasslands. Few think to look up. Yet the lower atmosphere, or troposphere, may be the largest habitat on the planet.

Five new animal species that camouflage themselves as excrement or bark reveal some of what still remains hidden in the world ...

Ahmed Boug and colleagues discovered seven naturally-mummified cheetahs, along with the skeletal remains of 54 additional ...

The mummified remains of dozens of cheetahs hidden deep in caves in Saudia Arabia shed light on where the animal lived in the ...

Arabian cheetah mummies' DNA reveals that the long-lost population could be closely replaced by a cheetah population in ...

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Preserved by dry, cool air and darkness, the cheetah mummies are offering scientists DNA insights into a lost population and ...

Today, the Arabian Peninsula has no wild cheetahs, but the mummified bodies found near the city of Arar offer hope for the ...