Earth is teeming with life: creatures big and small have spread and adapted to vastly different environments. Many animals ...

We expect tropical animals to handle a certain degree of heat, but not wild swings in temperature. That seems to be true for tropical ectotherms, or 'cold-blooded' animals such as amphibians, reptiles ...

The Santa Barbara Zoo opened a newly reimagined space featuring a tropical habitat. What used to be the "Eeeww!" exhibit is now a space where visitors can explore the vibrant biodiversity of tropical ...

The Hyalomma tick typically inhabits tropical regions, but it has increasingly been found in Germany since 2018. It transmits ...

Consider the globe, spinning silently in space. Its poles and its middle, the equator, remain relatively stable, thermally speaking, for the duration of Earth’s annual circuit around the sun. The ...

Ornithologists Henry Pollock (left) and Jeff Brawn (right) tested the temperature tolerance of tropical birds across habitats within Neotropical forests, finding a greater range of tolerance than ...