On a drizzly day in July 1920, a Colorado scientist named Junius Henderson was hiking around the Dakota Hogback, a sandstone ridge north of Boulder. There, he spotted a group of Rocky Mountain snails ...

New Zealand mud snails in a running stream in central Pa. (Edward Levri/ Pennsylvania State University-Altoona) A new method of identifying and tracking organisms based on their biological leavings ...

When I was 3 years old, my family went on vacation to the Bahamas, and I remember sitting on the beach while my mom/dad/uncle went on a scuba-diving adventure. A while later they returned, and my ...

The gut 'microbiomes' of long-dead animals could give researchers surprising insights into how climate change and other factors have shaped the Rocky Mountains and other ecosystems over decades. On a ...