Leopold, The Drunken Botanist, Beautiful Whale, and Between Man and Beast
Leopold, The Drunken Botanist, Beautiful Whale, and Between Man and Beast
Archaeology can shine needed light on the evolution of our aggressive tendencies.
Researchers show that a bacterium’s self-sacrifice can benefit its community, even when the members are not strongly related.
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.
Transcriptome studies reveal new insights about unusual animals whose genomes have not been sequenced.
Native Australian frog tadpoles outcompete the tadpoles of the invasive cane toad, suggesting the native frogs could form part of a suburban control program.
A red alga appears to have adapted to extremely hot, acidic environments by collecting genes from bacteria and archaea.
Physicists and biologists are working together to understand cooperation at all levels of life, from the cohesion of molecules to interspecies interactions.
The small organ evolved too many times for it to be an accident, but it’s still unclear what it does.
New research adds to an emerging picture of the changes that global warming and thinning ice are wreaking on the marine ecosystems at the top of the world.