Dragonflies and damselflies are animals that may appear gentle, but are — in fact — ancient hunters. The closely related insects shared an ancestor over 250 million years ago — long before dinosaurs —.

While cuttlefish wearing glasses is an unexpected sight, a University of Minnesota-led research team built an underwater theater and equipped the cephalopods with specialized 3D glasses to investigate.

Two new NSF grants allow Suzanne McGaugh and colleagues to gain more insight into how cavefish can alter behavior given changing conditions. Antisocial blind cavefish are drastically different from.

A new “flight arena” allows Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido to analyze dragonflies’ hunting movements, then ask how they do it. Fruit flies float into the humid air in a custom room dubbed the arena, and the.

Researchers track migration of monarch butterflies to determine whether roadside milkweed - often laden with salt - can fuel their journey. Winter seems like a long ways off, but some are already.

Drones, planes and satellites add early detection opportunity to combat the rapid spread of oak wilt. It sounds like something out of a tree horror movie: After spreading silently below the ground.

Learning from Soviet Union’s extensive and failed efforts to eradicate plague. Mention the Black Death and visions of overcrowded 14th-century European cities teaming with rats come to mind. Despite.

Graduate student Siddharth Bharath Iyengar received the University’s 2019 Outstanding Community Service Award for his work at the intersection of social and environmental justice and science.

Snapshot Safari to launch three new projects February 5, expanding research and conservation efforts for Africa’s charismatic wildlife. Since 2010, the camera trapping projects Snapshot Serengeti and.

This EEB Ph.D. candidate shares his thoughts on teaching, travelling and living out childhood dreams. Graduate Program: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Faculty advisor: Keith Barker Hometown? I’m.