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 ...

Meyerson defines invasive species as "non-native species introduced either intentionally or accidentally by humans outside of ...

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?

The risk of biodiversity loss has remained a constant concern for many nations, more so in Nigeria, where each of the two ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

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

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says 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 ...