Anyone who has spent time in the tropics knows that the diversity of species found there is astounding and the abundance and diversity of ants, in particular, is unparalleled. Scientists have grappled for ...

Biology - Evolution

Apr 22, 2013 4.4 / 5 (5) 0

When we look around in nature, most species seem well adapted to their environment. Scientists have found, however, that species evolve relentlessly and that evolutionary changes occur at a surprisingly rapid pace.

Biology - Evolution

Apr 18, 2013 not rated yet 0

Ten thousand years ago, at the end of the last ice age, a species of greenish warblers lived in a forest south of the Tibetan Plateau. As the ice receded, the forest grew to form a ring around the plateau—and so did the ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 12, 2013 4.8 / 5 (5) 2 |

Mountain formation stimulates increased biodiversity. This is what Carina Hoorn of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and colleagues from the Senckenberg (Germany) and Gothenburg Botanical Garden (Sweden) propose in a Correspondence to the ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 28, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—new paper by researchers at the University of Notre Dame provides new insights into speciation, which is the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 18, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

(Phys.org)—A research team working in Israel has found what might possibly be an example of evolutionary divergence in action – and it's not due to a natural barrier. In their paper published in the Proceedings of ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 30, 2013 4.8 / 5 (11) 0 |

Two new species of cichlid fish from Lake Victoria are described by biologists from Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Research Department Marine Zoology) and the Institute of Biology Leiden (Section Integrative ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 02, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Anyone who went outside this summer felt the effects of climate change. Now the Eurasian shrew, Sorex araneus, can say the same. A new study by P. David Polly of Indiana University found that climate change caused shrews ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 23, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 0 |

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), an organized research unit within the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, have made a remarkable ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 20, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 4 |

A new study indicates that mass extinctions affect the pace of evolution, not just in the immediate aftermath of catastrophe, but for millions of years to follow. The study's authors, University of Chicago's ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jul 02, 2012 3.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Scientists discover at least 11 examples of sympatric speciation on Lord Howe Island.

Biology - Evolution

Mar 15, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0

Professor Teiji Sota, Department of Zoology at Kyoto University, and his group demonstrated that loss of flight has been the major driving force for beetle diversification. This finding has been published ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 03, 2012 not rated yet 0

A study of South American songbirds completed by the Department of Biology at Queen's University and the Argentine Museum of Natural History, has discovered these birds differ dramatically in colour and song yet show very ...

Biology - Evolution

Dec 08, 2011 4.2 / 5 (5) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Contrary to what most people may think, the speciation rates of plants are not linked to the first development of a novel physical trait or mechanism. New international research shows that ...

Biology - Evolution

May 13, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0

A new commentary on the nature of pathogens is raising startling new questions about the role that fundamental science research on evolution plays in the understanding of emerging disease.

Biology - Ecology

May 13, 2010 not rated yet 0