A "lost" continent that once connected Asia to southern Europe may have formed an ancient passageway that helped animals migrate west, leading to a sudden and widespread extinction event around 34 ...

Animals in any environment have many essentials for survival. Two are obvious: food and water. Many don’t consider other essentials that are very much like the needs humans have. Those include cover ...

How can closely related plant species occur on two continents, thousands of miles apart? This distribution pattern is known as disjunction, and it’s a particular area of interest for Dr. Jun Wen, an ...

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Animals that migrate face myriad threats to their survival, all of which have a common denominator: human activity. That’s according to a first-of-its-kind report published Monday by the Convention on ...

Sep. 30—Migration is as natural as hummingbirds flying south for the winter. "Migratory" pairs the migration of plants and animals with human movement for survival. Developed by Mexico City artist ...

Animal migration has long fascinated humans, representing some of the most astonishing phenomenon in the natural world. Migration can be defined as the movement of members of a species between ...

HOARE, AUTHOR OF ANIMAL BOOKS FOR KIDS AND ADULTS (AND CO-AUTHOR OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIC BIRD), HAS COMPILED DATA AND IMAGES FOR ALL TYPES OF MIGRATING ANIMALS, LOOKING AT THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND REASONS ...

This study goes on to describe the odd migration patterns of these bats. The pell-mell migration pattern, as the study ...

Patterns of animal migration and the ecological forces that shape them have been studied for centuries. Yet ecological impacts caused by the migration, such as altered predator–prey interactions and ...