See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. You might think of ants as being everywhere all the time, but it turns ...

Wallace’s original map published in 1876, denoting six biogeographical realms. A recent study in Science extends Wallace’s findings, creating eleven realms (see below). Click to enlarge. In 1876, ...

Plants rely on seed dispersal to track favorable habitats and escape unsuitable conditions in variable environments. One likely driver of phenotypic dispersal trait plasticity is the prevalence and ...

The distribution of species around the globe is not a random process but an outcome resulting from several evolutionary mechanisms as well as past and current environmental limitations. As a result, ...

This has in turn generated a lot of confusion surround Australia and its status as a landmass. Of course as we all know, these terms are meaningless, which is why lately we've been using biogeographic ...

Marine scientists have formed a data repository for information about marine life around the world called OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information System). In order to help people better visualize the ...