Biodiversity

Small fish want to be them. Predators fear them. At first glance, you'd be forgiven for dismissing the tiny fang blenny as an easy meal ticket. However while these plankton feeders might not look like they could hurt a fly, their venom can easily make a predator's blood pressure drop like one. ​​

Scientists in Canada have carried out a study looking at how marine reserves can increase the numbers of less mobile fish, finding that fishing pressures in the surrounding areas also seemed to influence how quickly that evolution occurred. ​

Whereas the Milky Way contains anywhere from 100 to 400 billion stars, our home planet may host as many as one trillion species – the vast majority of which are microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi. What's more amazing is that we've discovered only a thousandth of a percent of them all.

Scientists at the University of Puerto Rico have developed ARBIMON, a system which automatically records tropical wildlife, and transmits it to a web application for analysis by experts, whose knowledge will be used to train the system to recognize species on its own.

UK architectural firm Blue Forest has revealed its plans to build a large nest-like treehouse amid the Eden Project conservatory’s Humid Tropics Biome.

Map of Life is a new Google Maps-based website, which indicates the distribution of almost every species of vertebrate animal in the world.

The Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA) aims to bring together multidisciplinary data from around the world allowing researchers and decision-makers the means to assess, monitor and forecast protected areas globally.

Archaeologist discover enormous rat bones in a cave in East Timor

Design teams turn their attentions to hotels.. for insects!

The OceanCam is an affordable solution to record high definition videos of the ocean depths.

The WWF has released a report which details more than 350 new species scientists have discovered in the eastern Himalayas over the past decade, including the world's smallest deer.

While the implications of climate change for biodiversity have been widely recognised, the insidious effect of invasive alien species (IAS) has remained under the radar.