A new study has found that when deforestation and land use change break up key habitats vital to amphibian life cycles, those ...

Your pet goes limp, silent, and frighteningly still. Your thoughts spin while the clock races forward. In that moment, clear, ...

Two unrelated groups of nectar eaters, hummingbirds and sunbirds, evolved different techniques to slurp the sweet liquid from ...

African wildlife has lost a third of its ecological power — the energy that drives vital ecosystem functions such as nutrient cycling, seed dispersal, and carnivory or pest control,” Ty Loft, a ...

If evolution has been a constant ever since the origin of life 4.2 billion years ago, then why do some claim that, for humans ...

A remarkably preserved, mummified reptile from 289 million years ago is rewriting what we know about how animals first ...

A new study led by researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin reveals how the loss of large mammals can ripple through ...

You've probably never seen a Dracula ant, as these elusive insects spend their days tunneling through the leaf litter and ...

For effective child-rearing outcomes, parenting should not be seen as fixed styles — authoritative or permissive — but as a ...

Quick Take Javelinas are often mistaken for pigs, which they strongly resemble, or enormous rodents. Though the javelina ...

In this valuable study, the authors develop new approaches to investigate mRNA imprinting, a phenomenon in which RNA-protein complexes form in the nucleus to influence the fate of transcripts in the ...

Estimates of the extent, condition and services provided by Australia's ecosystems, including Terrestrial, Freshwater, Coastal and Marine realms ...