Biodiversity

Urban wildlife is trying to adapt to city life. Is it behavioral flexibility or true genetic evolution? For the past 10 years, researchers have been investigating.

Squirrels may not pay attention to neighborhood boundaries, but forthcoming research may suggest the city’s bushy-tailed residents could be telling scientists an unexpected story about life in St. Louis.

It’s been nearly a year since the May 16th tornado and many homeowners and businesses aren’t close to rebuilding. Does this lead to storm fatigue for those residents, and even our broader community?

At first it was cute. Now it’s kinda creepy.

In the midst of a biodiversity crisis caused by human activity, often referred to as Earth’s sixth mass extinction, there’s a unique cause for celebration in St. Louis.

It’s officially tick season and tick-borne diseases are on the rise in the United States.

An internationally recognized evolutionary biologist, ‪WashU professor Jonathan Losos has transformed our understanding of biodiversity through groundbreaking research on lizards, cats, and the rapid pace of evolutionary change.

To attract their pollinators, plants have long produced vivid flowers—but the world wasn’t always so colorful.

New DNA studies show domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread later than believed, while ancient China lived alongside a different wild feline long before housecats arrived.

Pigeons flock to areas with people — a trait bred into their domestic ancestors for hundreds of thousands of years. However, St. Louis does not have many pigeons in the city proper.