A rather plain but sweet-looking species called the Philadelphia vireo wasn’t studied a single time during this 55-year period, according to the analysis. This bias can create a negative ...

In the study "Six-decade research bias towards fancy and familiar bird species," newly published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, a team of researchers studied nearly ...

That’s why some scientists look askance at the influence of invasion biology and argue that the field has a baked-in, nativist bias on documenting negative consequences of introduced species and ...

In addition to the geographic bias, this species bias also skews the data. An editorial piece from the nonprofit Bat Conservation International elaborates: The IUCN red list has a substantial ...

The Earth is losing animals, plants and other living things so fast that some scientists believe the planet is entering its ...

Well, a new study is set to challenge over 100 years of bias in this area of research. By looking at over 400 mammal species, the team found some surprising results – in most cases, the males of ...