Tag: ecology

California ground squirrels surprise scientists with their newly discovered taste for mammalian flesh.

From chameleons to ghostly plants, Earth’s life forms have evolved ingenious ways to eat.

Pink birds spin water tornados to trap prey like underwater spiderwebs

This rainforest giant thrives when its rivals burn

Sexus Botanicus, by Joanne Anton, is a lovely exploration of the surprising habits of plants and their pollinators.

Ethanol is more than a human invention. New research reveals how animals across ecosystems encounter and adapt to ethanol.

After becoming virtually extinct in California, wolves are making a comeback.

Scientists discover a frog in India's Western Ghats with a mushroom growing directly from its skin. Something like this has ...

Virovory, the consumption of viruses for nutrients, could significantly impact the global carbon cycle and food web structures.

Plants also talk, and they talk a lot under stress, but we are not sure who listens to the different ...

Beaver dams are great for maintaining the health of our ecosystems but it looks like both beavers and humans are ...

Ironically, it makes us put in less and less effort.

Every year, the British Ecological Society runs the photo competition to "celebrate the diversity of ecology".

Please stop.

The Klamath is set to lose many of its iconic conifers, to be replaced by shrubs.

Photo: conservationafrica.net In some parts of the world you can find fences that stretch for hundreds of miles, delimiting protected ...

Native plants on a California reserve (in bloom on mounds in background) are found in marginal, patchy habitats following invasion ...