A species of electric eel found in the Amazon basin can deliver a discharge of 860 volts, the strongest bioelectric shock ...

A new, jungle-proof automated light trap for insect monitoring documented in Methods in Ecology and Evolution and Integrative ...

To make sense of some characteristics that species exhibit from birth, you have to turn to an old discredited theory known as Lamarckism.

In nature, the rarest ingredient can be the one that holds everything together. In a new article published in Trends in ...

New research co-authored by an Oklahoma Museum of Natural History curator and her graduate student is offering fresh insight ...

A new study reveals that human activities have fundamentally reshaped biodiversity patterns on islands across the globe, with important implications for how scientists understand ecology, evolution ...

Plant microbiomes are a hidden frontier in the effort to secure global food production, offering a route to shift agriculture away from chemical-intensive ...

A leaf-eared mouse living more than 6,700 meters (22,000 feet) above sea level in the Andes has shattered assumptions about ...

Explore the pivotal evolutionary breakthroughs that shaped every living thing Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists discovered that some fluctuating conditions help populations evolve higher ...