These are adult COTS predating on coral. White coral skeleton (foreground), unconsumed coral (background).
Credit: Australian Institute of Marine Science
An American who fell in love with both the Great Barrier Reef and his wife via The University of Queensland has...
Common bed bug (Cimex lectularius) first nymph slide plate. (stock image)
Credit: © argot / Fotolia
A cave in southern Oregon that is the site of some the oldest preserved evidence of human activity in North America was also once home...
The radishes on the right were grown with the help of a bionic leaf that produces fertilizer with bacteria, sunlight, water and air.
Credit: Nocera lab, Harvard University
In the second half of the 20th century, the mass use of fertilizer...
Forest fragments of the Brazilian Mata Atlântica forest in Brazil are surrounded by sugar cane plantations.
Credit: Usina Trapiche S/A
When talk is of important ecosystems, tropical forests are top of the list. After all, half of the carbon stored in...
Credit:Florida Atlantic University
Is it a boy or is it a girl? For baby sea turtles it's not that cut and dry. Because they don't have an X or Y chromosome, baby sea turtles' sex is defined during development by...
Credit: Fischer Laboratory/Caltech
The ability to generate oxygen through photosynthesis -- that helpful service performed by plants and algae, making life possible for humans and animals on Earth -- evolved just once, roughly 2.3 billion years ago, in certain types...
Credit:Photo by George Poinar, Jr., courtesy of Oregon State University
While studying scavenger behavior in Utah's Great Basin Desert, University of Utah biologists observed an American badger do something that no other scientists had documented before: bury an entire calf...
Culex mosquitoes exhibit unusual aerodynamic mechanisms. Streamlines (red) show a vortex along the trailing edge that gives the insects a boost in lift force.
Credit: Bomphrey/Nakata/Phillips/Walker
The unique mechanisms involved in mosquito flight have been shared for the first time in...
Melt ponds cover vast areas in the Arctic.
Credit: Heidi Louise Sørensen/SDU
When spring arrives in the Arctic, both snow and sea ice melt, forming melt ponds on the surface of the sea ice. Every year, as global warming increases, there...
This image shows the skull of the venomous species Meiacanthus grammistes.
Credit: Anthony Romilio
Fang blennies are small fish with big teeth. Specifically, they have two large canine teeth that jut out of their lower jaw. Since blenny fish are only...
A honeybee is covered in commercial pollen.
Credit: Candler Hobbs, Georgia Tech
With honeybee colony health wavering and researchers trying to find technological ways of pollinating plants in the future, a new Georgia Tech study has looked at how the insects...
