A team has identified several factors to help answer a fundamental ecological question: why is there a ridiculous abundance of species some places on earth and a scarcity in others? What factors, ...

Study authors reported in Antiquity that they discovered the earliest examples of the “Scythian animal style” at Tunnug 1, a ...

Picture an “animal” in your mind right now. What does it look like? A dog? A lion? Maybe a sloth, pangolin, naked mole-rat, or even just a human? There’s a good chance that you imagined a mammal, ...

The University of Michigan Herbarium and Museum of Zoology are free and open to the public with advance appointments, ...

Even though animals can look very different on their surface, there are surprising similarities in how they’ve evolved to solve major problems – like how to support and move their bodies. Today, we’ll ...