A new study published in the journal Soil Ecology Letters, shows the importance of old termite mounds as habitats for a wide ...

Climate change and irregular monsoons have disrupted animal breeding cycles and led to a surge in health issues for domestic ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

So far, the Marine Organismal Body Size Database includes the maximum size of some 85,200 marine species. Biologists have launched a database of marine animals’ body sizes that they say could help ...

New research shows that the climate conditions dragonfly nymphs experience underwater have a stronger influence on adult ...

Animal conservationists often move elephants between herds to improve biodiversity and group health, but what if the elephants don't speak the same language?

India's rainforests, biodiversity hotspots in the Western Ghats and Northeast, harbor rare and elusive species. From the ...

Tyler Kartzinel likens protecting biodiversity to enhancing cellphone networks. His analogy is pretty straightforward: look for gaps in coverage, and then do what’s needed to fill them. “Engineers ...

South Australia’s tiny pygmy bluetongue skink is baking in a warming, drying homeland, so Flinders University scientists have ...

Explore 10 must-visit countries through their iconic national animals—from India’s Bengal tiger to New Zealand’s kiwi—for ...

The agency protecting the state’s famed but threatened ecosystems is not only not protecting most of them, but has been given ...

The Victorian landscape was once cloaked in these vibrant habitats. There are precious few left, but work has begun to ...