While rare, a few birds we studied were rule-breakers. One such rule-breaker is the Eurasian spoonbill, whose highly ...

Anecdotal results show that plants are growing more quickly and with greater cellular structure when frass is applied to the ...

Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Parasitoid wasps sometimes lay eggs in unsuitable host insects, a behavior that has traditionally been considered accidental.

Countless species of insects have been around for hundreds of millions of years, including pests like cockroaches and beetles ...

Image from the study. In the spring of 1971, an entomologist scooped a small insect from a seemingly pristine creek in the Netherlands and pinned it in a museum drawer. The larva—a species of ...

When someone you love dies, many people find that the process of maintaining and tending to their grave is part of the grieving process. These days you can do this in an environmentally-responsible ...

Primates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, such as capuchins and macaques; prosimians, like lemurs and tarsiers; lesser ...