Nature is astonishingly diverse. Across the planet’s oceans, forests, grasslands, and cities, living beings interact in ways that defy rigid expectations. Yet when it comes to discussing queer ...

Most ecologists once believed that healthy ecosystems are naturally stable, with a low turnover of species. Left to themselves, they reach a perfected equilibrium that the influential 19th-century ...

Suspended on a cable fixed between two trees in front of the Engineering Gateway building on UC Irvine’s campus hangs the RaccoonBot. And well, he’s just adorable. “The ‘cute factor’ wasn’t just a ...

Leptocephali, the larval stage of anguilliform eels, exhibit a striking combination of transparency, distinct morphology, and specialised feeding behaviours that have long intrigued marine ecologists.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The forests of northern Europe provided Tim Christophersen with his first education. As a child in rural Germany he followed his grandfather, a ...

Zeke Rowe, a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, was on a break while doing research in Panama’s Coiba National Park when he noticed a crocodile lurking in a tidal marsh off ...

A recent perspective by Spake et al. (2025) argues that conservation could be more effective if interventions were tailored to specific places, using data and causal analysis to predict where actions ...

TIRUPATI: The newly established Biomimicry Gallery at the Tirupati Regional Science Centre offers visitors a fascinating journey into world of nature-inspired innovation. Inaugurated on January 27, ...