Understanding how genes influence complex behaviors remains one of biology's most fascinating challenges. Now, however, in a recent study, researchers have compiled a comprehensive dataset documenting ...

Years of research in the field of genetics have offered interesting insights spanning the origins and development of heredity ...

Ecologists are investigating the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects, the most abundant and diverse group of animals on Earth, are experiencing alarming declines, ...

A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the ...

It has extraordinary support across Congress and from animal welfare and equine industry groups. The SAFE Act would also help people who currently work with or own horses. "Kill buyers" often outbid ...

Current priorities in biodiversity preservation, the researchers note, are geared towards animals and plants, rather than insects ... that patterns in butterfly diversity differ strongly from those of ...

About the significance of the study, Dhanashree Paranjpe, who heads RRBCEA, said, “There is a good diversity of insects in the Empress Botanical Garden even if we don’t count insects that are ...

“This is significant because there are around a million known insect species — even with all of that living diversity ... groups that looks like this?” he said. “And there’s no real analog within ...

Uncover all our insect-content here. Dragonfly. Image via Unsplash. The dragonfly is one of the most fascinating creatures on the planet, especially when it comes to flight. Unlike anything else in ...

An animal rights group is calling upon the president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center to impose severe penalties against the university researcher whose alleged negligence and ...

Pictures posted on the Malaysian Stray Animal Association (SAFM) Instagram page on Thursday (March 27), showed gruesome images of the animal's dorsal skin torn from its body. According to the ...