In 1903, former UW zoology professor Trevor Kincaid and UW botany professor T.C. Frye founded what is now called the Friday Harbor Laboratories in the San Juan Islands. The islands’ rich and diverse ...

Born in 1809, Charles Darwin proposed the theory of natural selection and helped set the foundation for how modern scientists classify organisms, cementing hims ...

Advanced 3D reconstructions of the comb jelly’s aboral organ reveal a sensory system far more complex than scientists expected. The organ contains a wide variety of specialized cells and is closely ...

A new accounting of nitrogen pollution in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB) reveals a significant decline in ...

The gilthead seabream, a species of commercial interest that migrates seasonally, does not form independent local populations in the north-western Mediterranean but instead constitutes a single, ...

The model focused on “palaeogeographic context,” meaning the ancient layout of coasts, islands, and seaways. It tested whether coastline orientation and coastline shape predicted extinctions over deep ...

Porpoises are entirely dependent on their hearing for survival. They navigate, hunt, and communicate by emitting rapid click ...

Humans aren’t the only creatures that need to snooze. A peer-reviewed study by Bar-Ilan University researchers shows that sleep is an ancient process, dating back through evolutionary history, and an ...

Peto's paradox, or the disconnect between body size and cancer occurrence across species, is one of comparative biology's most curious cases. Size varies substantially across the animal kingdom, from ...

DEEP. SUNSET OVER THE WATER, TANGERINE HUED, PEACEFUL, BUT REFLECTIVE AS WELL OF A CERTAIN TREPIDATION. EVER SINCE A FICTIONAL SUNSET SWIM IN 1975. A PRIMAL FEAR, AN ENEMY BELOW THE SURFACE BUT ...

Orcas don’t have any natural predators, so how did this happen? The tooth marks, it turned out, were distinctive – they were from an orca. The DNA analysis of the fins that fo ...

New research finds that rising ocean temperatures are shrinking cool-water feeding grounds, pushing humpbacks into gear-heavy waters near shore.