Ecology & Zoology

Humans, bah.  Multimodal, egg-headed, tool-using, bipedal, opposing-thumbed existence is so 2008.   Ants are where it's at, to the delight of neo-rationalists everywhere (and Edward O.…

The three-spine stickleback, tiny fish that thrive in oceans and in fresh water, appear to be the same yet ecologists are finding that they are actually a diverse collection of very specialized…

University of Haifa-Oranim researchers have managed to make out the “self-irrigating” mechanism of Rumex hymenosepalus, the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water…

We can learn a lot about extinct giant South American mammals from 30-40 million years ago thanks the random process of fossilization.    Even their ancient 'mega-dung' has a tale to tell…

Dogs aren't the only animals that bark, they are just the most famous. Deer, monkeys and even birds also bark but what makes dogs different is a subject of interest in a new evolutionary biology…

This is my course assignment of Evolutionary Ecology of Stockholm University,Sweden in the year of 2009. Abstract Specialization character of phytophagous insects is one of the key examples of insect…

If you've read your history and wondered about when the next Ice Age is coming, you can thank global warming it hasn't happened.    But it could be worse.   Earth's 4.5 billion years…

A new monkey has been discovered in a remote region of the Amazon in Brazil, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) . The monkey is related to saddleback tamarins, which include several…

The mystery of a rare bat's unusually large nose has been solved, according to an article in Physical Review Letters. The adult Bourret's horseshoe bat, known scientifically as the Rhinolophus…

Why do some species  have parents working together to raise young?  In humans, it is the norm but in nature it is rare. Birds, like humans, have offspring raised by two parents and …