In the penultimate episode of Crash Course Zoology, we use everything we've learned so far to try and figure out what a "species" even is anyway! As you'll see, the incredible diversity of animals ...

The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on Earth. But ask 10 specialists how they define the concept and you might get 10 answers. In this ...

The evolutionary biologist Jochen Wolf was working from home when we first spoke, in April, 2020. Germany was under lockdown, and his lab, at Ludwig Maximilian University, in Munich, had been closed ...

Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning ...

Have you been hearing about the dire wolf lately? Maybe you saw a massive white wolf on the cover of Time magazine or a photo of “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin holding a puppy named after ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Co-existence theories fail to adequately explain observed community patterns (diversity and composition) because they mainly address local ...

The Messor ibericus is, as its name suggests, native to the Iberian Peninsula. But its colonies are found across the entire ...

More than 50 years after Bob Paine’s experiment with starfish, hundreds of species have been pronounced “keystones” in their ecosystems Lesley Evans Ogden, Quanta Magazine In the late 1960s, Bob Paine ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The discovery of the Popa langur, a medium-sized leaf-eating monkey found in central Myanmar, was ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — One person can’t measure all the trees in the world, but when many people come together, a global view becomes possible. A worldwide collaboration of scientists has produced the ...