Domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals every year, making them a top threat to US wildlife.
Domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals every year, making them a top threat to US wildlife.
A proposal to simulate all of Earth’s ecosystems is exposing a rift between small and big ecology.
The heat emanating from large metropolitan areas may be changing weather patterns thousands of miles away.
An infectious disease scientist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was brutally murdered in her home.
As wolves became domesticated, their genes adapted to a starch-rich diet of human leftovers.
The release of infectious agents from the lab is not uncommon, but lab-acquired infections are rare.
Bamboo sharks still developing in their egg cases respond to a predator presence by ceasing movement and even breathing.
Stomachs of flesh-eating flies carry the DNA of animals in remote rainforests.
Carl Woese, the discoverer of the third domain of life, has passed away at age 84.
In the final chapter of his book on the origins of vertebrate sex, author and paleontologist John Long pays homage to the humble placoderm, which got the erotic ball rolling.