island endemics are non-randomly distributed within the tree of life, with a total of 1,005 billion years of unique phylogenetic history with 17 families and 1,702 genera being entirely endemic to ...

Nearly half of all the plants found here, around 1000 species, are found nowhere else in the world. Hawaii is an important place for a programme about the relationship between plants and humans ...

There’s no denying that some species are impressive thanks to certain body parts (behave). From the long neck of a giraffe to ...

While over 80 percent of global economic activity is concentrated in cities, they are also the frontlines of multiple crises. Cities acutely feel the impacts of pandemics and endemics, conflict and ...

Monitoring disease outbreaks, alerting the public and collaborating with state and federal governments are all duties the new ...

The property has the highest diversity of tree species (over 200 species including 10 endemics) and ferns (some 104 species) in East Africa, and maybe the most important forest in Africa for montane ...

"This marks the first documented case of syntopy between two montane endemics in the Madrean Archipelago and adds to our ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s nearly midnight on the broad hill called Firmihin, where a dragon’s blood forest grows. The moon, a night past ...

Most people associate tool use with dolphins, primates and birds, but it seems insects can do it too. Find out more.

Its habitat on Kauaʻi's dry cliffs, home to just about 345 individuals, underscores the precarious existence of many Hawaiian endemics, threatened by invasive species and feral goats. Lead author ...