Ecosystems

Komodo dragons outlived their giant reptile peers through isolation and some lucky breaks, although cannibalism and virgin births may have helped.
Joshua Learn, Contributor
Researchers discover evidence of a kauri tree "superorganism" in New Zealand.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor
Searching for dwarf foxes and cloud forests on California's Santa Rosa Island -- a national park that the park service says is "like nowhere else on Earth."
Jason Socrates Bardi, Editor
After diving penguins drive fish to shallow waters, flying seabirds follow -- and share the bounty.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor
Repercussions of human pressure ripple from the edges to the center of an enormous protected area.
Nala Rogers, Staff Writer
Scientists explain the lime green look of spring.
Catherine Meyers, Editor
When the foraging sea mammals crack shells to collect food, they produce distinctive evidence.
Thomas Garlinghouse, Contributor
Despite conservation efforts, close assessment of Pando reveals significant losses. 
James Gaines, Contributor
They probably evolved to make mushroom-eating insects lose their appetites.
Karin Heineman, Executive Producer
Officials in Wyoming are building bridges in the hopes of restoring the migratory path of the pronghorn.
Annie Roth, Contributor
Algae and seaweed blooms in Greenland’s vast network of Arctic tidal pools offer shelter for some animals from an acidifying ocean.
Jennifer Leman, Contributor
Researchers find that wildfires are responsible for up to 20 percent of water flowing in some Western U.S. streams.
Jennifer Leman, Contributor