Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million years ago. New fossil evidence puts them on an island 4 million years ago.
Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.
Plastic waste has let common coots reuse nests year after year. Scientists have now used the trash layers to date how old nests are.
Understanding hammerhead sharks’ food preferences could aid efforts to protect the critically endangered fish.
A chemical in Adélie penguin guano may have cued krill to take evasive maneuvers in lab tests.
In Brazil, where humans and dolphins fish in tandem, cooperation both within and between species is essential for the longstanding tradition.
Cloud forests are biodiversity hot spots and crucial water sources. But climate change and deforestation are shrinking their range, new data show.
The new fungus species Gibellula attenboroughii forces reclusive cave spiders to exposed areas, likely to benefit spore dispersal.
DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.
Mapping fish migration routes and identifying threats is crucial to protecting freshwater species and their habitats, ecologists argue.
