Paleontologists working on the world-renowned Burgess Shale have revealed a new species named Mollisonia plenovenatrix, which they describe as the oldest member of a group of animals called chelicerates.

Animals around the globe face rising extinction rates, but there is often a lack of data about the causes of population declines, as well as ecological and biological considerations for conservation.

Governments meet in Monaco over the next week to approve a scientific report outlining climate change impacts on the earth's oceans and snow and ice-covered places - or cryosphere - and our options to respond.

While thousands of visitors to Algonquin Provincial Park were canoeing and camping this summer, a small band of third-year University of Toronto ecology students was hard at work collecting data and conducting experiments with reptiles and amphibians.

USC researchers have discovered that corals can pass on their reshuffled symbiotic algae, which may help their progeny withstand climate change.

A major question in evolutionary biology is whether species’ traits can affect how often they form new species.

Large tropical mountain river systems aren’t getting the respect they deserve – at least not when it comes to research and conservation.

Life on Earth is amazingly diverse, and much of this diversity lies in a rich variety of geographical patterns.

New research at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) shows how the world’s most widely used insecticides could be partly responsible for a dramatic decline in songbird populations.

As odd as it may seem, mowing down milkweed can help monarch butterflies.