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Jasna Hodžić
Jasna Hodžić, PhD, is a former plant ecologist and researcher turned science writer and editor. She is based out of the western United States.
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The moths in your garden might hear your tomato plant's pain.
Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.
Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores — and now virivores.
Toxoplasmosis, which results from a chance encounter with a cougar and the parasite it carries, can push a wolf to seek alpha status.
The dating pool is small — no pun intended.
We want to fight invasive species. But to wage a war, you have to know who your enemy is.
Tracing the origin and development of jaws — and other anatomical features that humans share — sheds some light on how we came to be.
Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.
Advances in ancient DNA analysis gave researchers a new way to trace the movements of peoples across Eurasia.
Asteroid collisions aren't always bad.
The 557-million-year-old specimen challenges the theory that animal body plans were laid out in the Cambrian explosion.
Predatory dinosaurs with big skulls tend to have tiny arms. Researchers propose there might be a direct link between those traits.
New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?
Fossils of Australopithecus in a South African cave are one million years older than previously thought. This challenges the consensus that humans first evolved in East Africa.
All marbled crayfish descended from a single clone discovered in Heidelberg, Germany in 1995.
It's not about leaves in tall trees.
The long-standing debate over whether dinosaurs were more like birds or lizards is drawing to a close.
We already know animals feel emotions, and that they can understand humans' emotions. But can they understand each other's emotions?