In 1975, Annie Dillard won the Pulitzer Prize for her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a poetic chronicling of her creek-side ...

A new article published in PNAS reveals the unprecedented ability for reverse development in a ctenophore, also called comb jelly. The findings suggest that life cycle plasticity in animals might be ...

Taxonomy is the classification and description of living organisms. It includes the naming and defining of species, and the collation of data about their biology and biogeography. Corals and other ...

lead author and postdoc at the DNRF Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO), Department of Biology, ...

A study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution sheds light on the innovative practices of Central Europe's early cheese ...

Decades after it was first found in Japan, a crustacean species with unique black-and-white coloring resembling a panda has been confirmed to be new to science. Decades after it was first found in ...

This species is estimated to be over a billion years old, making it older than the world's most ancient animals. Researchers ...

The results, published Nov. 7 in Current Biology, reveal that some of the stories told for decades about the individuals’ ...

An ancient slab of seafloor that was around when Earth’s earliest known dinosaurs emerged has been discovered beneath the Pacific Ocean, where it has seemingly hovered in a sort of mid-dive for ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected ...

It's not clear why ancient humans and other animals in this ... and more recently the use of Quaternary data in conservation biology.