Yellow-legged hornets, murder hornet's relative, found in Georgia, officials want them destroyed

Authorities in Georgia are asking the public for help tracking a growing invasive hornet species that preys on ... management officials confirmed to USA TODAY. As of Thursday yellow-hornet nests ... Read More

New Species News

The three new species ... An invasive Asian honeybee colony in northern Australia has defied expectations, displaying emergent genetic variation in a short period of time. While bad news for ... Read More

Invasive Species News

Researchers have discovered that the silent growth of non-native invasive plants can affect the ... New Butterfly Species Created 200,000 Years Ago by Two Species Interbreeding Apr. 17 ... Read More

During the 2024 eclipse, biologists like us want to find out how birds will respond to darkness in the middle of the day

Because birds use light to match their behaviors to their environment, scientists like us have lots ... advances help to automate the process of identifying bird songs by species with less work ... Read More

The government says to destroy these invasive, fuzzy mud-looking masses. Here's why.

The Department of Agriculture is seeking the public's help to destroy an invasive species that looks like ... and scraping" will be an essential tool in keeping problems at bay. Read More

Biologists Find Another Incredible Skill Ants Have To Put Humans To Shame

Biologists have discovered another incredible ... While the behavior may look surreal, it holds numerous benefits for the species. Scientists have long looked into these behaviors, but one that ... Read More

The Invasive-Species Debate Is Not Always Simple

But human beings, whatever their race, belong to the same species. Depending on how you look at it, either all human beings are native to a particular ecosystem or none of us are. Plant and animal ... Read More

Complex birdsongs help biologists piece together the evolution of lifelong learning

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news ... results help us build our birdsong story. If sexual selection favors larger repertoires, then the growth of a species ... Read More

How To Find Elusive Species In Nature

Some elusive animals are difficult to find because they are small, others are secretive and do their best to hide from humans, and certain species are just uncommon or only live in remote areas ... Read More

Evolution news

research in recent decades has increasingly revealed the pivotal roles that microorganisms (or microbial species) play in shaping the biology of host organisms ... An international research team ... Read More

Ecology news

Huge pink flocks of millions of flamingos—flamboyances of flamingos—are one of nature's great spectacles. But colleagues and I have uncovered worrying trends in the salty and highly-alkaline ... Read More

Complex birdsongs help biologists piece together the evolution of lifelong learning

We also wanted to find an evolutionary ... These intuitive results help us build our birdsong story. If sexual selection favors larger repertoires, then the growth of a species’ syllable ... Read More