They're not always beautiful, but the wonders of the natural world provide a rich pool of material for researchers to flex their hands with the more creative side of scientific fieldwork. In the third ...

A damsel fly peeking out of a window in a leaf has taken out the top prize in an ecology journal's annual photo competition. Other images highlighted in the competition featured frogs, fish, birds, ...

A striking image of the invasive orange pore fungus (Favolaschia calocera), which highlights the potential threats the species may pose to Australian ecosystems, has won the third BMC Ecology and ...

Zeke Rowe, a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, was on a break while doing research in Panama’s Coiba National Park when he noticed a crocodile lurking in a tidal marsh off ...