Planting a diversity of crops can prove beneficial during extreme weather events. Some plants are better able to stand up to ...

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

Sometimes individuals from two different species can reproduce ... produce a breed that consistently produces a lot of milk. The key to success is to identify the feature you want, only breed ...

"We wanted to synthesize these global data resources to see what environmental factors shape biodiversity." Scientists ...

Biodiversity is a term that can be used to describe biological diversity at a variety of different scales, but in this context we will focus on the description of species diversity. Species play ...

Subalpine and boreal moorlands are ecosystems that contribute to climate stability by reducing excess carbon as well as ...

The waters surrounding South Georgia, nestled beneath glaciated mountains, are among the most biologically rich in the ...

When studying the Asian hornets’ (Vespa velutina) gut contents, a team of researchers from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, they found evidence of 1,400 different species ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...

The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo antecessors', whose remains date back approximately 860,000 years. It is a key ...

Following an agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity to reconsider protections for the Cedar Key mole skink, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting the skink as ...