As early as 7,400 years ago, Siberian dogs had evolved to be far smaller than wolves, making them more dependent...
Most ants dexterously grasp and snip their food with a pair of chopstick-like mandibles. But trap-jaw ants are also capable...
A new study helps reveal why tropical mountain birds occupy such narrow elevation ranges, a mystery that has puzzled scientists...
Temperature affects nearly every part of an animal’s day-to-day existence. Biologists have, for good reason, spent a huge amount of...
Urban agriculture is booming, but there’s often a hidden danger lurking in city soils: lead. A recent University of Illinois...
Larger organic farms operate more like conventional farms and use fewer sustainable practices than smaller organic farms, according to a...
Paramyxoviruses have the potential to trigger a devastating pandemic. This family of viruses includes measles, Nipah virus, mumps, Newcastle disease...
Does the astonishing biodiversity in the Philippines result in part from rising and falling seas during the ice ages? Scientists...
Temperatures are rising, and one colony of ants will soon have to make a collective decision. Each ant feels the...
Scientists at deCODE genetics—a subsidiary of Amgen—together with collaborators from Denmark report on the whole genome sequences of 150 thousand...
Every biological process depends critically on temperature. It’s true of the very small, the very large, and every scale in...
Findings from a new study investigating how birds experience neophobia, which is the fear of new things, could play a...
