Across North America, mountain lions, bears and gray wolves have made a remarkable comeback over the last 50 years. Once nearly exterminated, these animals have been recovering their populations and ...

Wolf populations in Yellowstone National Park have myriad impacts on ecosystems, but exactly how those impacts play out in the complex system is still under consideration. New research from Utah State ...

In Yellowstone National Park — where gray wolves were reintroduced starting in 1995 — researchers have gone back and forth on whether the restoration of wolves has impacted the ecosystem. The idea is ...

We are interested in environmental questions at the interface between applied and basic ecology. To address such questions we use an adaptive research approach and employ a variety of research methods ...

A food web is a detailed interconnecting diagram that shows the overall food relationships between organisms in a particular environment. The simplest explanation is that food webs are "who eats whom" ...

China has built more dams than any other country and more large dams than the rest of the world combined. This month, it officially acknowledged construction of the biggest dam ever conceived in human ...

Remote sensing at a landscape park in Poland uncovered ancient structures buried beneath. Screengrab from Team of Landscape Parks of the Greater Poland Voivodeship's Facebook post Constructed pyramids ...

Great White Shark breaching at Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa (Photo by Chris Brunskill Ltd/Corbis via Getty Images) For years, the cold, murky waters of False Bay were home to animals that were ...

Researchers of ancient Egypt discovered “five identical structures near the Khafre Pyramid’s base, linked by pathways, and eight deep vertical wells descending 648 meters underground.” Claims that ...

“Pyramid schemes” aren’t just for the wealthy. Archaeologists have long theorized that Egyptian pyramid tombs were reserved for the elite. However, analysis of skeletons belonging to “extremely active ...

All organisms in an ecosystem are interconnected, and any imbalance in this complex relationship can have irreversible consequences for both humans and nonhumans. Numerous examples illustrate how the ...