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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Wildebeest go great distances each year. Some animals stay in the same place year-round, while others cover great distances during their migrations every spring and fall. These creatures walk, swim, ...

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 ...

White-eared kob antelope in the Great Nile Migration Landscape are part of the world’s largest land mammal migration of 5 million to 7 million animals. Their migrations recently were mapped by Global ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spotting animals can be a fun and even rare moment for those who live in a city, but for residents of this tiny Australian Island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, seeing animals is practically ...