Researchers at University of Galway have created the world's largest collection of digital microbes—nearly a quarter million computer models—to help revolutionize our understanding of the human microbiome and its impact on health.

Jumping spiders—one of the largest spider families—get their name from the extraordinary jumps they make to hunt prey, to navigate and also to evade predators.

A team of cognitive neuroscientists at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, working with colleagues from Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitacion, Universidad de Guadalajara, all in Mexico, and Baylor College of Medicine, in the U.S., has found evidence s

Crocodiles in northern Australia are heating up as the climate warms, with higher body temperatures changing their behavior.

In a recent study, scientists at Leipzig University have for the first time demonstrated play-like behavior in flies. They found that fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) voluntarily and repeatedly visited a carousel.

The ink of the cuttlefish could transform how sharks are deterred from hunting near swimmers, according to new research.

Some efforts to preserve or rewild natural habitats are shifting harmful land use to other parts of the world—and this could drive an even steeper decline in the planet's species, according to a team of conservation scientists and economists led by the U

In tropical forests, endangered species inside protected habitats are still in danger from threats from beyond their sanctuaries, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Ilaria Greco and Francesco Rovero of the University

Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behavior of northern elephant seals that journey to nearby Año Nuevo Natural Reserve. With the seals gathering on the beach by the thousands to breed and molt, generations of re

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly's own immune system to destroy brain cells, leading to signs of neurodegeneration, a new study has found.

Biodiversity loss has accelerated at an alarming rate in recent decades, driven largely by human activities such as clearing forests to grow crops or harvest timber. While countries often degrade ecosystems within their own borders through these activitie

The field of evolution examines how organisms adapt to their environments over generations, but what about the evolution of evolution itself?