Road ecology, the scientific study of how road networks impact ecosystems, presents a perfect opportunity for community ...

With more than half the world now living in cities and urban land cover expected to increase by about 1.2 million square ...

Orcas, also known as killer whales, are among the most intelligent and social of marine mammals. They live in tight-knit pods ...

Garden snails and aphids are venomous animals. This is the startling outcome of a new study that argues for a radical shift ...

Researchers have recovered and sequenced Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains in Chile, ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has collected body size data for more than 85,000 marine animal species and ...

Union minister Bhupender Yadav highlights man-animal conflict and tigers outside reserves as major conservation challenges, ...

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 ...

This dramatic shrinking is the phenotypic manifestation of a change to the cod genome that’s been brought on by overfishing. That’s the message from a new study that has demonstrated, for the first ...

Mysterious animals believed long gone may be reclaiming territory across the U.S. South, raising questions about ecology, climate, and human oversight. #rewildingamerica #wildlifereturn #animalcomebac ...

Movement ecologists study how animals move in ecosystems together with other individuals of the same or other species. When animals appear to move together, ecologists often assume they're interacting ...

They’re also a bit of a bridge between land and water, depending on the species. “All animals with a backbone and a shell are turtles,” says Jeffrey Lovich, Research Ecologist at the U.S ...