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In some species, female and male butterflies apparently perceive colors differently.

Researchers discovered that adult trees in a Panamanian forest are three times as distant from trees of their species as would be predicted.

Poison frogs are able to withstand a toxin which they use to deter predators, but not without a cost.

An application of AI to medical imaging datasets has revealed genetics of the skeletal form for the first time.

The new research offers important insights about how animals, particularly birds, may adapt to the rapid rise in temperatures driven by global climate change

All complex life, a.k.a. eukaryotes, trace their roots to a common Asgard archaean ancestor.

A study in PLOS Computational Biology from University of Texas at Austin epidemiologists examined COVID infection and hospitalization rates by zip code.

Researchers set out to explain the variation in how the same genes are expressed in men and women.

An invasive grass causing havoc in Texas and contributing to wildfires packs a one-two wallop against native plants. Guinea grass uses a combination of crowding that blocks out light from growing seedlings and what amounts to a chemical warfare in soil that is toxic to native plants, according to a new study by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.

Traditionally, it has been assumed that cultivating food leads to a loss of biodiversity and negative impacts on an ecosystem.