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Ecologically- and economically-rich coral reefs occur in very specific places on our planet.
New species finds include a succulent plant, worms and crustaceans near a hydrothermal vent and desert bees.
How can we effectively communicate the urgency around plastic pollution in the ocean to effect change?
The Academy's Stan Blum works in Biodiversity Informatics-- he documents what lives where.
When you watch a pitcher wind up and throw a fastball down the middle, you’re seeing millions of years of human evolution and adaptations in action.
Almost a year has passed since crane operator Brandon Valasik discovered a Colombian mammoth tooth at the Transbay Transit Center.
How does ocean acidification affect oysters? How do oysters affect acidification?
Healthy ecosystems often rely on secret agents. Not spies, but organisms that might not seem to have an obvious connection to a natural community.
Read about the most comprehensive analysis to date of early human teeth from Africa.
In ecosystems, every organism plays a part. From the smallest microbe to the fiercest predator to the talle...