An evolutionary perspective on immune priming across plants and invertebrates highlights the roles of microbiomes and epigenetic regulation in shaping innate immune memory with promising applications ...

From water fleas to seed shrimp, Australia’s desert rock holes shelter unique animals found nowhere else. But as the climate ...

Quoting from Landcare scientists, “Two years after the poisoning operation, rat abundance was about four times greater than ...

The study of stress responses in invertebrates is a burgeoning field, particularly when considering the vast diversity of ...

A contender for Britain's largest insect could be the largest UK beetle, the stag beetle ( Lucanus cervus, measuring in at 35 ...

Fiona Harper (PhD), who teaches in the biology department, sat across from me at her desk, eyes twinkling. I had just ...

This powerful insecticide might be derived from plants, but it has devastating consequences for natural ecosystems, affecting ...

These invertebrates have developed one of the most extreme defense systems in the natural world. Researchers have documented ...

King eiders are appearing in unusual numbers along the Atlantic coast, giving birders a rare chance to spot these striking ...

Scientists reveal Priocharax rex, a tiny Amazonian fish with a strange skin “wing” that redefines evolution in miniature.

In Tanzania, we watched on many occasions when small flocks of red-billed birds descended upon the backs of giraffes, cape ...

For the first time in California, citizen scientists can join the effort to track monarch butterflies thanks to Blu+, a new ...