Even in the ultra-dry Atacama Desert, tiny soil-dwelling nematodes are thriving in surprising diversity. Scientists found ...

The Atacama Desert is one of the driest places in the world. Some areas get very little rain each year. The soil is salty, and in some places it even contains harmful elements like arsenic.

MAY I be allowed to refer to the interesting and stimulating discoveries of Messrs. Farmer, Moore and Walker, and Drs. Bashford and Murray? The former have demonstrated that nuclear changes occur in ...

The world’s largest gecko has demonstrated the ability to reproduce without a mate through a process known as parthenogenesis. This rare form of reproduction allows offspring to develop without ...

Jacques Loeb is dead—the greatest exponent Since Haeckel of what he called “the mechanistic conception of life.” And because Loeb lived in the age of rigorously experimental biology, he contributed ...

AMONG the lower groups of Crustacea, namely, the phyllopods, cladocera and ostracods, parthenogenesis is a well-known phenomenon and in many cases it is the only one known by which reproduction takes ...