Earth’s Organisms

Why are some primate infants brightly colored?

In some primate species, infants are born with conspicuous coats that fade to normal adult coloration…

Sometimes the best defense from predators is to stay in plain sight.

What type of an animal is a sifaka? What makes them unique? And how in the…

What could be the meaning behind squirrels with pink fur and puffins with electric blue beaks?

These small arachnids are all around us, and may even live in your house!

The advent of affordable DNA sequencing has put molecular techniques at the forefront of species discovery.…

Take a minute and think: What do you consider “wild things”? Would bacteria count in your…

Lauren Alteio | March 6th 2016 Recently the media hype about the tiny living things known…

We know we get infections from time to time. Why does this happen?