Learn how to draw a misty pine forest using soft pastels and chalk pastel pencils with simple, beginner-friendly techniques. This step-by-step art tutorial shows how to build depth through soft ...

Rainforests are full of mystery, movement, colour and sound - making them the perfect place for children to wonder, imagine and investigate. In Play School: Rainforest Rangers, children are invited ...

Treehoppers, small plant-eating insects from the Membracidae family, are gaining interest among scientists due to their unique vocalisations and extremely weird-looking bodies. The insects live in ...

Fresno Chaffee Zoo is closing one of its oldest attractions, ending a nearly 40-year run on an exhibit that invited “nature lovers to take a walk on the wild side.” So, wrote The Fresno Bee on the ...

The Amazon Rainforest is one of the most extraordinary ecosystems on Earth, a vast green world stretching across multiple South American countries and home to an astonishing variety of life. Its ...

There's no doubt that themed restaurants had a moment in the '90s, back when whimsically minded foodies could dine surrounded by a dense menagerie of faux jungle greenery and eccentric animatronic ...

Gloger’s Rule, first proposed in 1833, suggests animals in warm and humid environments often develop darker pigmentation. Darker feathers and fur contain melanin, which can strengthen structures and ...

Pesquet's parrot (Psittrichas fulgidus) The only member of its genus, and its genus is the only member of the subfamily Psittrichadinae. It is endemic to hill and montane rainforest in New Guinea© ...

Scientists have used a combination of drone technology and environmental DNA analysis to detect animals that live in the rainforest canopy in the Peruvian Amazon. Using the technology, researchers ...

As DNA sequencing technologies improve, it is becoming easier to sequence and assemble new genomes from non-model organisms. However, before a newly assembled genome sequence can be used as a ...