Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and ...

Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

In the insect world things are often not what they ... sitting motionless on the tree trunks into which they blend. Some creatures even change color to blend with new surroundings, like the ...

Insect Ecology and Adaptation - research group studies diverse topics of insect ecology and evolution. Our model systems include both economically important forest insects (e.g. pine sawflies and bark ...

(Darwin 131–132) In the years following Darwin's work, biologists formally rejected the ladder of life in favor of the tree concept. Nonetheless, many current discussions of evolution ...

These body types include the "tree lobsters," which have lobster ... These similarities enable researchers to predict stick insect evolution, even when the critters have evolved independently ...

Now we were interested in an endophytic fungus whose role in poplar-insect interactions ... with the tree, is important for understanding the complexity of the co-evolution of trees and other ...

However, it turns out that the tree model of evolution is somewhat counterintuitive and easily misunderstood. This may be the reason why biologists have only in the last few decades come to ...

Uncover the history of life on Earth, from the smallest insects to the largest mammals. The ancient human species Homo luzonensis is one of the most recent branches to be added to the human ...

Kozhikode: Forest department launched a multi-institutional study to see if the tiny insect attacking an invasive tree can be used for biological control of the invasive alien tree, Senna ...