Squamellaria plants grow special structures to host the ants they symbiotically rely on for nutrients. Distinct compartments help different ant colonies live peacefully side by side.
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Many of us are hostage to our phones – and it’s not unlike having head lice.
Evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks talks to The Conversation Weekly about AI’s potential to influence our evolution.
Symbiosis is so much part of life on Earth that it has shaped the evolution and structure of cells. It’s happening almost everywhere we look, including inside our gut.
New findings suggest animal-mediated plant reproduction might have originated in the ocean.
Over hundreds of million years of evolution, ants have come up with some pretty smart solutions to problems of agriculture, navigation and architecture. People could learn a thing or two.
Finches have evolved to feed off blood from red-footed and Nazca boobies – and we’ve seen it first-hand.
Vampire bats form social bonds similar to human friendships – and they’re good friends to those in need.
Stick insects may be using birds to disperse their eggs, just as plant do.
From Winston Churchill to the Industrial Strategy Commission: laying down the markers for success.
Do you know your parasites from your gut commensals? Read this and you will.
Reproduction for a female fig wasp can be a nightmarish process. When she is ready to lay her eggs, she leaves the fig in which she was born and became pregnant and searches for another. After she finds…
We now know that mountain treeshrews and summit rats feed on the nectar secreted by the giant pitcher plant – Nepenthes rajah – then defecate into its pitchers, providing it with much needed nutrients…
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