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.
The passenger pigeon was hunted to extinction 99 years ago, but researchers are planning to use DNA from museum specimens to bring the bird back to life.
Transcriptome studies reveal new insights about unusual animals whose genomes have not been sequenced.
A red alga appears to have adapted to extremely hot, acidic environments by collecting genes from bacteria and archaea.
Amateur birders record an astounding number of species and individuals in the first ever worldwide avian stock taking.
Physicists and biologists are working together to understand cooperation at all levels of life, from the cohesion of molecules to interspecies interactions.
Increasing evidence suggests that loss of Earth’s biological diversity will compromise our planet’s ability to provide the goods and services societies need to prosper.