A team of scientists has documented that Yasuní National Park, in the core of the Ecuadorian Amazon, shatters world records for a wide array of plant and animal groups.
Funding from Kleberg and Bass Foundations will help biologists look for more methods of fire ant control.
Erin Elbel, an honors biology major in the college, sends us a postcard from Sydney, Australia, where she's spending a semester abroad.
A slideshow of trippy images from the lab of biologist John Wallingford, who studies the embryonic morphogenesis (the process by which embryos acquire their final shape).
Breaking up may actually not be hard to do, say scientists who've found a population of tropical butterflies that may be on its way to a split into two distinct species. The cause of this particular break-up? A shift in wing color and mate preference.
Misha Matz traces the evolution of coral fluorescence by resurrecting proteins from the past.
Researchers have received a $4.6 million grant to explore how switchgrass, a native prairie grass and promising source of biofuel, will fare under future climate change.
The complete asexuality of a widespread fungus-gardening ant, the only ant species in the world known to have dispensed with males entirely, has been confirmed by a team of Texas and Brazilian researchers.