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Ecology
Darwin missed an amazing example of evolution.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores — and now virivores.
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.
Toxoplasmosis, which results from a chance encounter with a cougar and the parasite it carries, can push a wolf to seek alpha status.
The spikes in their mouths would have helped them catch squid or fish.
We want to fight invasive species. But to wage a war, you have to know who your enemy is.
All American and European eels originate in the same place.
Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.
Based on product labeling claims, scientists hypothesized that green cleaners were less toxic. They were wrong.
Since our arrival, humans have driven a seven-fold drop in the mass of wild land mammals.
The 557-million-year-old specimen challenges the theory that animal body plans were laid out in the Cambrian explosion.
Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.
Disgusting behavior is often crucial to survival.
Two types of leaves for two different drastic weather conditions.
COVID-19 and other microbes have shed light on disease spillover from animals to humans, but we can also spillback disease to wildlife.
Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?
Can a non-native species be a friend instead of a foe?
Syllipsimopodi bideni is small (about 12cm in length), has ten arms, suckers, fins, and a triangular pen of hard tissue inside its body for support.
Local researchers identify a striking rainbow-colored fairy wrasse found off the coast of the Maldives as a fish species all its own.
From a desert oasis to the Rocky Mountains, being filled with awe makes me a better scientist.
Letting nature's expert engineers lead the way.
Once numbering just 27 birds, the global population of California condors is now in the hundreds.
Life largely owes its existence to this equation. Be sure to hug your house plant today.
Evolutionary game theory could tip the advantage to medicine.
When we try to recreate simpler versions of natural ecosystems, we invariably make mistakes, argues author and biologist Rob Dunn.