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

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

Islands are biodiversity hotspots. They only make up 5 percent of the world’s land mass, but they are home to 20 percent of ...

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

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 ...

At some point you have likely heard the term “biodiversity.” Maybe you heard the term on the news or during a nature documentary. Perhaps a consulting forester has discussed the ...

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

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

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 ...