More than 350,000 chemicals are used worldwide, and many find their way into the ocean through plastic pollution. As plastics accumulate in coastal waters, they continuously leach bioactive additives ...

Animals face a constant battle to survive, not just by finding food but by avoiding becoming food themselves. Over millions of years, evolution has produced a vast range of defense strategies, from ...

As pumas return to Patagonia’s coast, they encounter penguin colonies that expanded in their absence, creating new conservation tensions.

Animals don't just see the world differently from one another, they experience time itself at dramatically different speeds.

Road salt becomes much more deadly to freshwater snails when predator stress is present, raising mortality rates.

In the African savanna, lions are at the top of the food chain. Hunting in groups with their sharp claws and excellent vision, lions are considered the top land predator. Both herbivores and ...

Species numbers alone do not fully capture how ecosystems are changing. In a global study, scientists analyzed long-term data ...

I've long been interested in ways in which humans can peacefully coexist with so-called "problem" animals, including predators. In most cases, conservation protocols that call for killing these ...

Plastics shed thousands of chemicals into the sea, including oleamide – an industrial lubricant that also occurs naturally. In lab aquariums, researchers tracked 31,500 hunting interactions between ...