Human-driven bird extinctions over the last 130,000 years have cut avian functional diversity and erased 3 billion years of ...

A shocking new report on global biodiversity is detailing what it calls "a catastrophic decline" in wildlife populations ...

Seven of the most common forest trees in Europe have been shown to be able to shelter their genetic diversity from major ...

A team of researchers have observed marine snails evolve to closely resemble their predecessors over just 30 years – which is ...

A new study shows that the patchwork of different ecosystems found in mountainous regions played a key role in the evolution of humans.

Islands, long recognized as hotbeds of biological diversity, are just as much engines of linguistic diversity. Drawing on a ...

A new study has revealed that islands are home to around one in three of the world's plant species, despite covering just ...

The Koster archipelago's snail populations, affected by a toxic algae bloom, became the focus of a decades-long study ...

The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) have ...

Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks ...