A buried chapter in the history of the Americas may explain why North American mammals ultimately dominated one of the...

For millions of years, Africa was home to an extraordinary parade of giant plant-eaters: elephant relatives with unfamiliar tusks, massive...

Barragán Fonseca, K.Y., Mertens, D., Beschoren da Costa, P. et al. By-products of insect farming as a novel sustainable biofertilizer...

First study to map the surprising friendships primates strike up with dogs, deer, squirrels and other species   Why do...

Chen, C., Huang, JH., Fu, X. et al. Coupled and decoupled carbon-mercury dynamics across forest ecosystem continua. Nat Commun (2026).

A remarkably preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert is reshaping scientists’ understanding of mammal evolution during the age of dinosaurs....

Extant and ancient cephalopods—including octopuses, squids, extinct ammonites, cuttlefish, and nautiluses—have all had to solve the problem of buoyancy, whether...

Shrubs are often viewed as passive background vegetation, but new research suggests they can act as active engineers of ecosystem...

Protected forests that shield biodiversity from development pressures are now facing a different, rapidly intensifying threat: heat. A new study...

Marine life has not evolved in isolation from the architects of its habitats. A new study in Nature Communications reports...