Ecology & Zoology

There is a disease killing honeybee populations around the world but you won't be surprised to find that environmental groups never mention it. It's called American foulbrood disease and it…

10 percent of the world's ants are close relatives, belong to just one genus out of 323. That genus is  called Pheidole. Pheidole fill niches in ecosystems ranging from rainforests to deserts.…

Cockroaches are most often though of as infecting human homes but a new species and a new subspecies discovered in China prefer to live a hermit life, drilling logs far away from crowds and…

Butterflies aren't the only ones with snazzy stripes. Ben Sale, CC BY By Callum Macgregor, University of Hull Ask people to describe what they associate with butterflies, and you will probably get an…

A carnivorous plant is a delight for people because everyone knows plant don't catch and eat animals - except some do. Like us, they need animals for nutrition. Do carnivorous plants also sometimes…

How many kangaroos is too many? David Jenkins/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA By Brett Howland, Australian National University; David Lindenmayer, Australian National University, and Iain Gordon, James Hutton…

For mammals, the outer ears of mammals play an important function in helping identify sounds coming from different elevations. Since birds have no external ears, how do they accomplish the same…

A species of small fish uses a homemade coral-scented cologne to hide from predators - the first evidence of chemical camouflage from diet in fish. Filefish evade predators by feeding on their home…

The jellyfish highway. By Stefano Piraino, University of Salento and Bella Galil, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research For a month or two every summer, beaches across the south-eastern…

The fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome has spread to bat colonies throughout eastern North America over the past few years, causing bat populations to crash and leading to various claims…