Today we're learning about both the geographic and biologic factors that influence life underground to see if we can get a better understanding of cave biogeography!

Much of this knowledge has emerged from the tremendous body of work from one scientist, Alfred Russel Wallace (Figure 1), widely regarded as the “Father of Biogeography.” Aside from co ...

Deep in the Pacific Ocean lies a chain of islands cut off from the rest of the world. Here life from all across the world has come to establish itself, only to find an environment unlike any other the ...

Darwin, Wallace and the other 19th century naturalists who traveled widely were fascinated by the distribution of animals and plants in their habitats around the world. Why do the Galapagos ...

Phylogenetics, systematics, and biogeography deal with the identifying, classifying, and understanding the relationships among organisms, including their geographical extent. Methods range from ...

Biogeographic regions reflect the organization of biotas over long evolutionary timescales. Here the authors show that climate change will lead to the persistence of some biogeographic regions and ...

While the allure of unmasking the Sasquatch will continue to fascinate many, scientific evidence suggests we already know the identity of this mysterious hominid.

Seventeen new species of plant bugs—a group of insects with a strawlike mouth used to feed on plant and animal matter—have ...

Researchers from Guangdong Academy of Sciences and Beijing Forestry University in China found that in the Gyirong Valley of ...

The Evolution Lab contains two main parts: Build A Tree: Students build phylogenetic trees themed around the evidence of evolution, including fossils, biogeography, and similarities in DNA.

This book presents a definitive review of pine ecology and biogeography written by forty of the world's leading authorities on this important genus. In the face of increasing human pressure and global ...

A Townsville researcher who has embraced underwater robot technologies to help study deep coral reefs and their unique ...