Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...
About 500 million years ago, not a single creature had a skull. Over time, these bony plates evolved into the structural marvels that vertebrates—animals with spinal cords, aka you, me, and your pug, ...
When most people imagine a bird, they picture an animal with feathers, wings, and a beak perched on a tree branch. However, ...
Introduction: Nonnative species in the world / David Pimentel -- The impacts of alien plants in Australia / Richard H. Groves -- Environmental and economic costs of invertebrate invasions in Australia ...
Researchers encountered a new species of octopus while scanning the ocean floor off the Galapagos Islands – and it may be from out of this world.
Alien plants and animals cost Europe over $1.5 trillion in the last six decades, according to a new study, indicating the global economic impact of such species could be several times higher than ...
Biological invasions occur when organisms such as animals and plants are introduced by people to regions of the world where they do not naturally occur. In these new locations, these organisms are ...