Biodiversity

For the first time, a jumping spider has been observed hunting tadpoles.

One dark night in the Guyana rainforest, herpetologist Andrew Snyder serendipitously shined his flashlight on "a small glint of brilliant, cobalt blue" sticking out of a rotting stump.

Remarkably diverse communities of ocean life make their home in waters near Mexico's Revillagigedo Islands, now a protected marine reserve.

Mexico President Nieto designated a Pacific Ocean region teeming with biodiversity as a protected marine area.

Climate change may be leading to shifts in the communities of sea life beneath an Antarctic ice shelf.

Caribbean islands hosted plenty of diverse mammal life — until humans showed up 6,000 years ago.

Approximately 10 million beetle specimens make up the Coleoptera collection at the Natural History Museum in London.

An oddball extinct animal discovered nearly 200 years ago recently confirmed its place on the mammal family tree, thanks to newly discovered DNA evidence.

A diverse range of technologies, including satellite observation, can combine with data collected on the ground to give a more accurate picture of global biodiversity.