Rowan Hooper met ecologist Suzanne Simard under an oak tree in Kew Gardens, London, to talk about her new book, criticism of ...

Acid-filled pitchers complete with fangs. Labyrinthine chambers decorated with bristles. Leaves that snap shut in less than a ...

When most people think about biodiversity in lakes and rivers, they imagine fish, plants, or perhaps birds and amphibians. But beneath the surface exists another world that often goes unnoticed: ...

“Demonic intrusion,” a term coined in 1984, describes uncontrolled, often random disturbances by an entity, human or ...

How extinction of giant ice age beasts could still affect food chains - Loss of species including mammoths, saber-tooth cats and direwolves has had long-lasting impacts and could tell us how biodivers ...

A UC Santa Barbara researcher published a paper detailing the intricate impact that kelp forests along local beaches have ...

Researchers around the planet grew up watching documentaries hosted by the English broadcaster and naturalist, which sparked ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of enormous, intelligent, octopus-like predators that dominated Earth's ancient oceans. These creatures, some up to 19 meters long, possessed bone-crushing beaks and ...

Ten thousand years ago, the Americas teemed with mastodons, giant ground sloths, and saber-toothed cats. Within a few millennia, nearly all of them were gone. A study published in April 2025 in the ...

The project will use environmental DNA (eDNA)—traces of genetic material left behind by organisms—to understand the health of ...

Combining more than 15,000 reports from 36 states, researchers estimate that recreational fishing puts $3 billion worth of ...