EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak speaks with The Scientist about how pathogens like 2019-nCoV jump species, and how to head off the next pandemic.

An image of a Malagasy tree boa wins first place in the British Ecological Society’s annual photography competition.

The silver-backed chevrotain was undetected for decades, but local reports have led researchers to document the species on camera.

Both bobcats and the state’s namesake panther, an endangered species, have been spotted with signs of the condition.

The fish’s undiscerning palate might make more of the lake habitable to the species than once thought, according to a new study.

Bats are infected with the microbe that causes white-nose syndrome, but the disease itself has not shown up.

A camera trap snaps a photo of a wild bobcat in a location new to scientists studying the animals’ geographical range in Ohio.

The information we’ve gathered showed us that warthogs can be used as disease sentinels, avoiding the need to resort to testing valuable or endangered animals.

From changes in gene flow to adaptation, the effects of urbanization are shaping the evolutionary trajectories of plants and animals.