Humans rely on metaphors to guide a shared understanding of our complex world, and in a novel twist, a faculty member in the ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by ...

A groundbreaking study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as sharks declined by 75% and fish preferred by humans became ...

This makes protecting gopher tortoises and their burrows vital not just for the survival of the species, but for the survival of Florida’s fragile ecosystem as a whole.

Springfield Dickerson Park Zoo zookeepers introduce us to Mel the gopher tortoise.

Florida gopher tortoises are a threatened species and 365 others depend on their burrows. Florida development boom is leaving little room for the native land tortoises.

The building boom is having a disastrous effect on gopher tortoises, a 60-million-year-old keystone species that is losing ... Each burrow provides food and habitat for about 365 species of bugs, ...

Florida gopher tortoises are a threatened species and 365 others depend on their burrows. Florida development boom is leaving little room for the native land tortoises. Developers may have to relocate ...