Parental egg-care in fish traps them in an evolutionary dead-end through the loss of the chorion-hardening system, according ...

And yes, that includes red-winged blackbirds. Of the more than 27,000 published papers analyzed for this study, red-winged blackbirds were the second-most researched species, with an astonishing ...

While there are plenty of conservation efforts and community love for cute marsupials like the western ringtail possum, ...

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

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 ...

Today's Climate ‘Beauty Bias’ for Wildlife Among the Public and Researchers Could Jeopardize Conservation A wide body of research shows that traditionally charismatic species receive more ...

For the first time ever, scientists have made a species de-extinct, bringing the dire wolf back into the ecosystem about 12,500 years after it died off. Colossal Biosciences ...

New Data Challenges 100 Years Of Bias By looking at 429 species of mammals across a range of orders, the team found some surprising results. Eleanor Higgs. Eleanor Higgs.

In nature, thriving ecosystems demonstrate a remarkable balance of interdependence and inclusivity. Each species, no matter how small, plays a role in sustaining the whole. This same principle ...

After years-long discussion, birds will no longer be named after people — a decision meant to dissociate the animals from problematic eponyms. The American Ornithological Society announced ...