Global warming. Habitat destruction. Pesticides and pollution. Environmental forecasts and reports are all too often full of grimness and gloom. But ecology has its lighter moments, and I take solace ...

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Purple snakes are the world's rarest and most intriguing reptiles. Their striking colors, either deep purple or pale lavender, make them uniquely distinguishable in the wild. Some of them exist in the ...

As a graduate student at the Free University of Brussels nearly 20 years ago, Athanasia Tzika analyzed the genomes of several animals to better understand their diversity. During this time, the ...