New research shows that losing threatened requiem shark species could erase millions of years of tooth evolution and squeeze ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 24 (June 14, 2022), pp. 1-6 (6 pages) Oceanic islands support unique biotas but often lack ecological ...

Almost everyone knows about the American alligator. But did you know we also have an American crocodile? The species is native to coastal areas of peninsular Florida. Its full geographic range ...

CABI scientists, who have published their research in the journal CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, suggest that an accidentally introduced parasitoid could help save wild box trees from ecological ...

The lemurs of Madagascar represent a prodigious adaptive radiation. At least 17 species ranging from 11 to 160 kg have become extinct during the past 2000 years. The effect of this loss on ...

Anthropologist Amelia Villaseñor coauthored a paper describing the ecological effects of an extinction event that occurred more than 10,000 years ago in North America, one that had major consequences ...

The history of life on Earth has been punctuated by several mass extinctions, the greatest of these being the Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the "Great Dying," which occurred 252 ...

We are currently experiencing the sixth mass extinction of our world; the loss of so many species has resulted in a substantial decrease in global biodiversity. Further, things are getting worse and ...