From the bugs in our backyards to prehistoric reptiles, animal biology and behavior are full of puzzles and conundrums. On this episode, we hear from experts solving the mysteries of the animal ...

The anatomy of an organism provides the principal opportunity for biological insight. Evolutionary relationships, function and ecology can all be inferred based on observable structures. From fossils ...

Ecologists and biologists commonly conduct surveys of the plants, fungi and animals in the environment they study. It’s less common, however, for that environment to be the virtual emojisphere. Emoji, ...

When Kelli Duncan first began her research as a PhD student she was terrified of birds. "I thought birds are going to be pecking out my eyes in the lab," remembers Duncan, who is now a biologist at ...

As far as high concepts scenarios go, Thomas Cailley’s The Animal Kingdom has been blessed with a primo what-if premise: France is in the middle of a pandemic. (No, not that one.) A good deal of the ...