The Asian harlequin ladybird carries a biological weapon to wipe out competing species.
The Asian harlequin ladybird carries a biological weapon to wipe out competing species.
Symbiotic fungi on the roots of bean plants can act as an underground signaling network, transmitting early warnings of impending aphid attacks.
The decline of a population of Arctic foxes isolated on a small Russian island may be due to mercury pollution from their diet of seabirds and seals.
Researchers in the Amazon are measuring how much carbon dioxide fertilizes the rainforest.
Scientists are stumped as to why hundreds of starved pups have been washing up on the California shore.
In Chapter 3, “Tamping the Simian Urge,” author Travis Rayne Pickering contrasts the brute physicality of predatory chimpanzees with the headier hunting style employed by humans.
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Archaeology can shine needed light on the evolution of our aggressive tendencies.
Newly constructed ramps will expand the habitat available to a colony of water voles in London, and similar ramps elsewhere could encourage isolated populations to mix.
Native Australian frog tadpoles outcompete the tadpoles of the invasive cane toad, suggesting the native frogs could form part of a suburban control program.