The COVID-19 pandemic changed a lot for human society – but it also caused a local species of bird to rapidly evolve, ...

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when ...

When the world slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic, its effects extended beyond humans. A recent study found that it ...

Dark-eyed juncos, a bird that typically live in mountain forests, have established thriving populations in Southern California cities, where they eat food people leave behind. A UCLA biologist ...

A UCLA campus shutdown during COVID revealed rapid evolution in urban birds, as junco beaks shifted with the rise and fall of ...

A familiar winter visitor, the dark-eyed junco uses remarkable senses and navigation skills that make this modest backyard ...

Leggy and sharp-eyed, Common Grackles (along with their larger, showier relatives, Great-tailed Grackles and Boat-tailed ...

Few things in the universe are as perplexing as dark matter — the invisible and exotic “stuff” that is thought to make up most of the matter in galaxies. The theory goes like this: To reconcile our ...

Looking into how twins’ genetics work can give researchers new insights into how different lifestyles and habits affect two people with the same genetic blueprint. Identical twins Marzieh and Razieh ...

There are always exceptions, and perhaps you’ve had an especially rewarding bird sighting this fall, but generally, it has ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...