Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but not in others? A study led by researchers at the University of Göttingen ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the ...

Decades-long conservation battles like the one to save the manatees take exhaustive legal advocacy and persistence in the ...

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Conventional wisdom is that if you cultivate host plants, butterflies will come. Take, for example, milkweed. After declining monarch populations began making headlines in the late 1990s, people ...

A green pit viper named after Salazar Slytherin from Harry Potter, an unfamiliar snake found in an Instagram post, and twelve ...

Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the ...

The authors have generated important resources such as a reference dataset of early primate development by utilizing single-cell transcriptomic technology together with induced pluripotent stem cells ...

UC Davis researchers have documented evidence of chinook salmon returning to the Northern California creek where they were born for the first time ever, describing it as “a rare example” of a ...