While hiking near Big Bend Ranch State Park's Contrabando Trail, something Michael Alvard had never seen before caught his ...

A Texas hiker who stumbles on a once-in-a-lifetime rare cactus in the desert is not just finding a botanical curiosity, but ...

Along the coast, this buck and doe are dining on prickly pear cactus, and further inland, a hungry javelina munches a thorny ...

ONE AFTERNOON in the spring of the year 1910, Ben Lilly with five of his dogs swung off the caboose of a freight train at the ...

No matter your interior aesthetic, these beauties come in so many shades, shapes, and textures to choose from, effortlessly ...

Take a hike, sit on a beach or hang out in your own backyard to experience sights, sounds and smells of life and activity in the outdoors.

That’s exactly what awaits at Makoshika State Park in Glendive, Montana – a geological masterpiece that somehow remains one ...

The rare yellow fumewort thrives amid Michigan winter when other plants are long gone. But due to its threatened status, you ...

Citizen science platforms, including iNaturalist, are leading to major new discoveries and are becoming crucial to the work ...

Conservationists are preserving the endangered bunched arrowhead flower in Travelers Rest, South Carolina and Henderson ...

The future of some of the world's rarest plants remains uncertain after a heating system broke down in a special glasshouses ...

More than 30 years ago, a group of scientists planted 4,200 seeds of the rare Pitcher’s thistle in the sandy dunes of the ...