Farmers plant or preserve riparian buffers for various reasons, such as improving water quality, controlling erosion, or maintaining hunting habitat. Now, a new study from the University of Illinois ...

Before heading out to do their fieldwork, Dr. Stephanie Collins, Jing Lu and their team would scan the horizon, get tips from local residents and check a whiteboard at the research station in ...

What is the 'most Canadian' animal? Spoiler: it's not the beaver, or the moose. A new study ranks species of terrestrial vertebrates in Canada by their level of Canadian evolutionary distinctness: the ...

Computer generated 3D illustration with the dinosaur Argentinosaurus. Fossilized bone fragments found in Neuquén Province in northwest Patagonia could belong to an exceptional large specimen of ...

Modern-day scorpions impress and terrify with their quick reflexes and venomous sting. But these monsters have an ancient lineage — one that stretches back to the earliest years of animal life on ...

Of all the animals ever to have roamed the planet, the iconic long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs known as sauropods stand unrivaled. No other terrestrial creatures have come close to attaining their ...

Whether responding to the sudden pounce of a predator or the loss of balance before a harmful fall, an animal’s survival may ultimately depend on how quickly it can react. So neural delays — from ...

Raising a semi-terrestrial species on land highlights the role of developmental plasticity in the evolutionary transition from water to land. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with ...