Bella Rubietta has devoted dozens of hours to helping a bug so uncommon she has yet to see it. The 14-year-old Prior Lake resident wrote a children’s book and brochures on the topic, held ...

MADISON, WI — In the long and storied history of earth, there have been five mass extinctions, the most famous, of course, being the dinosaurs. Believe it or not, humans and the earth are ...

“Milli and Binx immediately began swimming in the pools in their Otters on the Edge habitat,” Shannon Anderson, lead otter keeper, told McClatchy News in a Feb. 3 email. “They are sticking ...

Pesticides, habitat degradation, and climate change could also ... A federally endangered gyne, or “future queen”, rusty patched bumble bee. (Photo courtesy of Wisconsin Department of Natural ...

A man tells the story of his brother, Rusty, detailing how he overcame both ... Trudeau says Centuries-old floor patched with sliced bones discovered in the Netherlands Every Grammy album of ...

This is why a critical habitat designation is especially important and timely after seven years since the listing. When FWS announced the endangered species classification for the rusty patched bumble ...

Most other insects must rely solely on the sun's warmth to do this. As a result, it isn't uncommon to see bumble bees flying when there is snow on the ground, even in alpine habitats on high-mountain ...

Honey bees are capable of flying long distances when they need to -- estimated to be able to fly up to 10 kilometers from their hive -- but the team hypothesized that such distance is uncommon and ...

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to designate critical habitat for the rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis), a bumble bee historically known to occur broadly across the ...

To restore the habitats, Parks expects weeds and invasive ... monarch butterfly, rusty patched bumble bee and unicorn clubtail, a species of dragonfly.