Latest about ecosystem
Buddhist ritual saves exotic fish from slaughter — only for 'adventurous' Tibetan otters to feast on them instead
Exotic fish released as part of a Buddhist religious practice have become the preferred food option for otters, potentially mitigating the impact these introductions have on native species.
Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' top 200, twice as many as we thought
A new census of the world’s largest invasive species reveals the population is roughly double the size scientists previously estimated.
Burmese pythons are helping rats take over Florida's Everglades — and that could help spread disease
The invasion of pythons has had little to no impact on cotton rats, explaining why some areas are now increasingly dominated by rodents.
More than 5,000 new species found in 'pristine' deep-sea wilderness. But they could soon be wiped out.
A new study cataloged all the species uncovered by research expeditions in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, which has become a potential hotspot for deep-sea mining.
Scientists find strange underwater volcano that 'looks like a Bundt cake'
The Saildrone Surveyor mission discovered the unnamed, 3,200-foot-tall formation in February while mapping the seafloor off the coast of California.
Gigantic, 13-foot crocodile found with its head torn off on Australian beach
The beheading, which may have been motivated by a recent spate of crocodile attacks on humans, could spell trouble for the local ecosystem.
Bizarre, never-before-seen viruses discovered thriving throughout the world's oceans
The discovery of a strange group of viruses, dubbed mirusviruses, that infect ocean plankton across the globe may shed light on the origin of herpes.
World's oldest DNA reveals secrets of lost Arctic ecosystem from 2 million years ago
Researchers have unearthed tiny fragments of DNA in the Arctic that were left by plants, microbes and animals that lived in a previously unknown ecosystem in Greenland.
