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

Chunks of flipped DNA appear to accelerate evolution in fish. This discovery could reshape our understanding of how ...

Kajiado County, with its expansive rangelands stretching across 21,000 square kilometres, became an early target for carbon ...

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 ...

UK Space Agency announces £2.5m funding for research into applications for the use of satellite data to help transform 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 ...

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 ...

Bringing back extinct animals distracts from conserving endangered species ... By setting up the expectation that biotechnology can repair the damage we're doing to the planet's biodiversity, ...

The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is the largest venomous snake in North America and one of the heaviest snakes on the ...

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