What lies deep beneath ocean surfaces is often a mystery. In Australia, many underwater habitats have not been mapped, and...
Populations of squaretail grouper face an uncertain future as new research shows fishing that targets their spawning sites is causing...
Living with a killer: How an unlikely mantis shrimp-clam association violates a biological principle
When clams gamble on living with a killer, sometimes their luck may run out, according to a University of Michigan...
Compared to other mammals, human children are dependent on their caregivers for a remarkably long time. Throughout the ages, they...
Microscopy has been making leaps and bounds in recent years. Science that was inconceivable a few years ago has become...
Soils are among the largest viral reservoirs on Earth. Yet historically, soil viruses have been ignored. Recent work indicates the...
A study of horses—which share many important similarities with humans in their chromosomes and pregnancies—revealed that 42% of miscarriages and...
When an ecosystem faces the challenge of habitat fragmentation, ecologists and conservation biologists traditionally have encouraged population dispersal to give...
Light pollution disrupts circadian rhythms and ecosystems worldwide—but for plants, dependent on light for photosynthesis, its effects could be profound....
Researchers from Kyushu University have discovered that blowflies, a family of flies strongly attracted to decaying flesh and feces, are...
Shark conservation must go beyond simply protecting shark populations—it must prioritize protecting the ecological roles of sharks, according to new...
University of Maryland researcher Cheng-Yu Li was in the lab one day when he noticed a fish with a protruding...
