Why the Loch Ness Monster has a scientific binomial.

Gaining enough weight to survive a winter of hibernation is actually very hard work.

For as long as plants have existed, there have been moving forests, migrating across the earth’s surface in response to changes in the climate.

Natural selection should weed out the do-gooders and leave only egoists, but animals share just the same.

Paradoxically, museum specimens of long-dead animals may offer us the keys to protecting live ones.

The peer-reviewed ecological journal Oikos has nothing to do with the popular brand of Greek yogurt that shares its name.

In 1961, G. E. Hutchinson first outlined what he called the paradox of the plankton. Over 50 years later, it may be solved.

Researchers in Thailand have discovered that overhunting in tropical forests doesn’t just kill animals, it kills also trees.