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Ecosystem Dynamics
The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.
Two populations that are geographically separated today once mated a very long time ago.
According to Peter Ward's "Medea hypothesis," photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
Slimy biofilms made up of bacterial and eukaryotic life forms have taken over an abandoned, flooded uranium mine in Germany.
A toxicologist explains the impacts of antidepressants on fish — and no, they're not getting any happier.
Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores — and now virivores.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
Why would the Earth suddenly start vomiting forth huge quantities of mud?
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
Merely 256 genetically engineered mice could make an island's pest population go extinct.
A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
It's on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
The dating pool is small — no pun intended.
Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.
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.
Sex can be a death trap even for modern toad and frog species.
Here’s how to appreciate them from a distance.
Livestock now outweighs wild mammals and birds ten-fold.
Research sheds light on social behavior of these mysterious predators.
Volcanic activity caused the end-Triassic mass extinction 200 million years ago. The dinosaurs survived and rose to dominance.
A floating platform the size of Rome collapsed off of Antarctica.
An emerging field studies parasites that take over the nervous system of a host.
There may be thousands of undiscovered mammal species in the world. Most are small, like bats and rodents, but there could be primates, too. A lifeline for Bigfoot enthusiasts?
Scientists have known blobs existed for a long time, but how they have behaved over Earth’s history has been an open question.
The way that the ancient Megalodon adapted to water temperature has important implications for modern marine creatures.
Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?
Local researchers identify a striking rainbow-colored fairy wrasse found off the coast of the Maldives as a fish species all its own.
Gigantic ranges called "supermountains" formed twice in Earth's history, and they may have had a profound influence on evolutionary history.