Marine heat waves have become longer and more frequent along the U.S. West Coast, as elsewhere in the world. But heating ...

A new study shows that resilient and remarkably diverse populations of organisms can persist in the soil despite harsh and ...

Valued for their medicinal properties, ecological importance, and cultural heritage, mangrove habitats across the ...

UCLA biologists are developing a tool to predict when deadly Salmonella outbreaks are likely to happen in wild songbird ...

Some 60 primate species, including baboons, chimpanzees and vervet monkeys, express homosexuality, according to a new study ...

Most daily actions are driven by habit, often aligning with goals and shaping how behavior change succeeds or fails. Most of what people do each day is guided by habit rather than deliberate ...

Most of us will have felt at some time that our lives have become dreary and dull – that something in them is lacking. We ...

Studying wild rock doves gives us a rare chance to establish how one of science’s model species lives in nature. This may ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

Key takeawaysIn years when pine cone production is very low, forest songbirds sometimes migrate in large numbers into cities, ...

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...