Dusky gopher frogs spend most of their lives underground, in burrows created by gopher tortoises — hence their name — and other animals. In the winter they migrate to temporary ponds to breed, and ...

For the dusky seaside sparrow the end has come, not with a bang, but with a lonely twitter. The species, always reclusive and rare in the Florida salt marshes it once inhabited, is now a population of ...

Girded by a golden halo that lights up its otherwise ashy body, the dusky batfish looks otherworldly as it flutters through the ocean. A MEMBER OF the spadefish family (Ephippidae), named for their ...

One stormy night at Walt Disney World wiped out the planet’s only living link to a species that became extinct two years ago today. Four crossbred dusky seaside sparrows living at Disney’s Discovery ...

Sporting the colours of freshly molten lava, the dusky lory almost doesn’t look real with its bright orange features breaking through all that sooty black. THE DUSKY LORY is a smart, boisterous, ...

Dusky grouse are effectively camouflaged and cryptic much of the year, but when it comes to the spring mating season, the males are bright and bold In the early 1800s, as the expedition led by Lewis ...