This article addresses central themes in the study of tropical biodiversity, exploring the roles that speciation, extinction, and dispersal play in the formation of regional assemblages.

A porcupine fossil recovered in Florida was the key clue in solving a paleontological mystery.

The Neotropics harbor one of the most biodiverse environments on the planet, with several plant species distributed from ...

With 84 species currently described, Characidium may be the most diverse fish genus known to science. This is the conclusion ...

A nearly complete fossil of an extinct North American porcupine has helped researchers resolve a long-standing debate about ...

Thirty million years ago, the Neotropical leaf-nosed bat survived solely on insects. Since then, these bats have diversified into many different species by changing what they eat.

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Neotropical songbirds, such as warblers, thrushes, tanagers and orioles, are driven to migrate by an innate biological urge called “migratory restlessness” or Zugunruhe. Why they migrate to ...

College students learn about birds in the Smokies and Ecuador in a Comparative Temperate–Tropical Ecology and Biogeography ...

Understanding the factors that influence how species select their habitats is crucial to inform conservation strategies, ...

A rare, nearly complete fossil of an extinct North American porcupine helped me and my colleagues solve a decades-long debate ...

A beautiful new species of clearwing moth that is native to Guyana has been described after it was discovered 7,000 ...