Migrating animals have for a long time been tracked by recapturing tagged individuals. More recently, radio-telemetry, which requires an observer to physically follow the tagged animal, has been used.

Animal migration has fascinated humans for millennia. And for good reason: Some of the most astonishing feats of endurance are performed by long-distance migrants, such as the nine-day non-stop flight ...

Animals in any environment have many essentials for survival. Two are obvious: food and water. Many don’t consider other essentials that are very much like the needs humans have. Those include cover ...

The new MiCO map helps scientists, conservationists, and policymakers quickly see global migration patterns for 109 species.

Across oceans, deserts, forests, and ice, certain animals pull off epic road trips. What’s exceptional is that some of their “road” might be 3,000 feet underwater or halfway to Antarctica. These ...

South Sudan is trying to protect the largest land mammal migration in history by partnering with the nonprofit organization African Parks to safeguard the migratory species that rely on the ecosystem ...

New maps show the massive impact of fencing on the long-distance movements of one of Africa’s most iconic migratory wildlife ...

A squid swims in the dark waters of the Mediterranean. Billions of aquatic animals, from krill to squid, travel to surface waters each night, a migration that scientists are only beginning to fully ...

Animal migration is the long distance movement of the species that usually happens seasonally. Birds, fish, mammals, amphibians, insects and reptiles around the world migrate. The reason behind it ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The warm weather has arrived, and more signs of spring are sprouting up — from flowers blooming to animals appearing. One animal in particular has begun migrating north from Mexico ...

BADINGILO and BOMA NATIONAL PARKS, South Sudan (AP) — Seen from the air, they ripple across the landscape — a river of antelope racing across the vast grasslands of South Sudan in what ...

Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal ...