The box elder is a native tree that produces large amounts of seeds that hang on all winter. They provide food for birds and ...

A new book details how lignin once protected algae from UV radiation, then later in evolutionary time became a structural ...

Contrary to appearance, standing dead trees, otherwise known as snags, are bursting with life. In some ways they ... Some of the more charismatic animals that rely on snags for food, shelter ...

The most familiar of these so-called biochronologies are tree rings, which form every ... that we can probe to build a picture of the animal's life. Probably the best known biochronometer in ...

Also popular are guides on India’s diverse flowers, trees ... a carnivorous bug’s life There are four lakh species of beetles in the world; the largest order in the animal kingdom.

After closing the tunnel behind him, he continues his reclusive way of life ... trees, for example, Wilkinson presented them with a V-shaped, transparent fence with food on the inside. No animal ...

Descendants of a monkey colony imported from India 86 years ago sunbathe, climb trees ... but rare. Animal research, while largely hidden from public view, is widespread across the life sciences.

Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most ... and in doing so, create new life. Fungi hyphae form mycelium that connects trees and plants in an underground fungal highway ...

You may be an arborist, a land architect, or just someone with an ever-curious approach to life ... While trees are a living plant, and have no ears, no eyes, no nose, no mouth, no brain, no heart, ...

Trees are shaped by what and who else is around them. Wind, snow, insects, fungus, browsing animals, or too much ... in control of where it starts its life. An acorn stashed by a squirrel may ...

It also placed an emphasis on boosting species recovery by increasing the abundance of naturally significant animals such as ... Micklewright says. The Dundreggan Estate, near Loch Ness, which is ...