Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Natural history can captivate the minds of all manner of people for a multitude of reasons, but a shifting media landscape demands adaptation from public educators....

The country’s oldest natural history museum, in Philadelphia, has closed its doors to visitors. Will other museums follow?

Changes in insect diversity and abundance can affect vertebrates but understanding these consequences relies on having rich information about vertebrate–insect interactions. This Review summarizes the...

New underground labs are being built as war rages on

The Clemson University Arthropod Collection turns 100 this year, and the data it contains is more valuable to the University's land-grant mission than ever. The Clemson University Arthropod Collection...

Understanding when lineages diverged is a common inquiry within the field of biogeography and often requires a rate of evolution and a means to calibrate the phylogeny to absolute time. While fossil e...

Large-scale genome initiatives are transforming biodiversity genomics, but genomes remain taxonomically sparse and difficult to compare across species. Kapli and colleagues argue that natural history ...

The Tohono O'odham people have sued the US government to stop construction of a border wall through their reservation.

Last month, the announcement of a new-to-science monkey species from the Congolese rain forest made a bit of a splash. It’s Colobus congoensis, formally, and less formally and based on a local name…

Restudy of a challenging fossil using cross-polarized light imaging and phylogenetic reconstruction identifies Chosha praecursor, a probable early-diverging insect, helping to bridge the longstanding ...

It’s here. SKUNKS. My dream guest, Dr. Jerry Dragoo of the Institute for the Betterment of Skunks and Skunk Reputations is finally on Ologies, and I can barely contain myself. Come to Albuquerque to m...