Scientists have released the DinoTracker app to help paleontologists and amateur enthusiasts identify fossilized dinosaur ...

One of the curious things in the world of birds is why most species come in only one color form, while others come in many. We can start with the western tanager. Adult males all look the same. Adult ...

For over 200 years, there has been just one species of giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis. This unmistakable African animal is ...

Every ecosystem is shaped by billions of invisible battles: organisms competing for light, nutrients, space, or mates. These competitive interactions determine which species survive, how they evolve, ...

Within-species variation in the stress response may also play a role in mediating the speciation process: in species with broad variation, there will always be some individuals that can tolerate an ...

Patterns of morphological divergence across species’ ranges can provide insight into local adaptation and speciation. In this study, we compared phenotypic divergence among 4,221 crickets from 337 ...

Restoring lost variation—bringing back genetic diversity that has been lost from the gene pool of the modern populations of threatened species, using DNA from samples of the species collected decades ...

In March 2018 at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, surrounded by his devoted keepers, Sudan the northern white rhino breathed his last. He wasn’t the only remaining northern white rhino because ...

Juvenile bonobo embraces a distressed companion during post-conflict consolation. Psychologists from Durham University, UK, observed the behaviour of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether ...