A new study published in the journal Soil Ecology Letters, shows the importance of old termite mounds as habitats for a wide ...

A new study by Dr Tom M. Fayle of Queen Mary University of London, Dr Kalsum M. Yusah of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Dr Jiri Tuma of the ...

From pollinating plants to dispersing seeds, birds play a variety of crucial roles that help to keep ecosystems in balance.

We estimate that they are home to more than 340,000 insect and other invertebrate individuals in every hectare in primary forest, and more than 17,000 individuals per hectare in logged forest. These ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Non-native, feral honeybees are crowding out native bee species in southern California — and it could have knock-on effects ...

The collection, titled “Call of the Wild,” was rooted in the Amazon rainforest, and first looks were a collaboration with ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, poetry slam and drag king competitions are in town, it’s ...

When insects are killed or die off, everything in the food web is affected, from the birds, bats and lizards that feed on insects to the snakes, coyotes and cougars that feed on birds and lizards, and ...

Meet the Spiny Devil Katydid, scientifically known as Panacanthus cuspidatus, one of the most fascinating and uniquely weird insects roaming our planet. Native to the dense rainforests of South ...

In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the rainy season watching the tropical dry forest from inside a shack. At ...

Purple martins roost in large numbers of hundreds of thousands of individuals to prepare for their annual migration to South ...