Migration is a survival mechanism for many species. Animals travel to find food, reproduce, reduce competition, escape predators or escape winter. Whether mammal, bird, fish or insect, a migrating ...

In the ocean's twilight zone, where the reach of the Sun fades to nothing, an epic migration begins every time night falls.

A white stork flies in Germany, where researchers tracked the birds’ migrations and concluded that they incrementally straighten their migration routes to find more direct ways to move between ...

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.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Field biologists tend to be a patient lot, often resigned to long days and weeks in ...

There can’t be a more remarkable sight than a mass migration of animals, be it across the plains of Africa, on a cloud-covered skyline, or along the wave-ridden ocean coasts. Even as you read this ...

The great migration is the largest circular movement of animals on the planet.

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 ...

An inside look at the “Incredible Animal Journeys” docuseries. The technologies used, from drones to biologgers, to capture images and video. It’s a scene in nature most people have never witnessed: A ...

Most people notice animal behavior in passing. A flock of birds scatters, a fox wanders a little too close to a porch, a ...