Some parts of the rainforest in northwestern Ecuador used to be so dense and impenetrable that only a few hundred people were ...

In humans, chronic high blood pressure forces the heart to work too hard. The muscle of the left ventricle thickens in defense, a condition called hypertrophy. Eventually, this leads to fibrosis, ...

Killer whales can scare white sharks away in the moment, but a 12-year study from South Australia shows that long disappearances from shark hotspots are often just part of the sharks’ natural rhythms.

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

In 1871, a farmer stepped off a volcanic rock in the southern Indian Ocean. For seven months, he had tried to grow crops and ...

The research project, titled “Access to Racial Justice in Criminal Courts,” will examine the implementation and impact of the ...

Despite decades of independent progress in population ecology and movement ecology, researchers have lacked a theoretical bridge between these two disciplines. "Ecologists have been trying to ...

New study reveals our closest relatives share the cognitive roots of imagination and pretense. Remember childhood tea parties? The cups are empty, the teapot is dry, yet the air is thick with the ...

For planning animal conservation measures, it is vital to know where endangered species live and how they interact. Ecologists are successfully using tracking technology to learn about the movements ...

There has been quite a bit of pearl-clutching over Louisiana v. Callais, a Supreme Court case about a second majority-black congressional district in Louisiana. Drawn last year, Louisiana’s Sixth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Professors Michael Chemers, left, and Renee Fox, co-directors of the Center For Monsters Studies at the University of California, ...