For decades, scientists have observed a clear pattern across the natural world: biodiversity tends to be higher near the ...

Plants on remote islands get less disease — but isolation reshapes which species dominate, and those species are the most ...

Throughout the world, some islands were once inhabited by humans but now remain uninhabited due to various reasons such as ...

UMaine ecologist Brian McGill has earned one of science’s highest honors for work that’s reshaping how the world understands biodiversity.

Biogeography is the scientific study of the spatial and temporal patterns of biodiversity, examining how and why the distributions of species, populations, communities, and ecosystems vary across ...

A jaw bone discovered in Egypt is changing the way scientists think about the origins of the ape family tree. The specimen, ...

Scientists have uncovered a new species of rhinoceros in the Canadian High Arctic, revealing that rhinos once lived far ...

Two University of Wyoming graduate students will present their research to the public during a Science Café Saturday, April 4 ...

The fossil find suggests that the closest ancestors to modern apes may have emerged in northern Africa rather than what was ...

Two deep-sea amphipod species have been found to live in both hemispheres and share features, according to a new study that boosts our understanding of the biodiversity and evolutionary processes ...

Two deep-sea amphipod species have been found to live in both hemispheres and share features, according to a new study that ...