Biology

In rare instances, DNA is known to have jumped from one species to another. If a parasite’s DNA jumps to its host’s genome, it could leave evidence of that parasitic interaction that could be found millions of years later — a DNA ‘fossil’ of...

Come celebrate Earth Day at the University of New Mexico’s 8th Annual Sustainability Expo! The event is Thursday, April 21 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Cornell Mall -- just east of the Student Union Building -- The Expo offers an opportunity to...

The search for general trends in evolution of animal shape and size often comes up empty. Rather, evolution tends to be unpredictable, leading toward different forms in different places. Groundbreaking new work has revealed a predictable trend in...

One of education’s biggest challenges is keeping up with technology to ensure that students are familiar with the latest technological advances and enabling them to be successful during their academic careers and beyond. This is especially true in the...

The UNM Biology Department hosts its 25th annual Research Day and Open House on Thursday, March 31 and Friday, April 1. The annual event is a showcase of student research celebrating discovery and education in the biological sciences. On Thursday, March...

Understanding the different ways organisms can adapt to environmental temperatures is central to understanding how they will respond to climate change. In a study released yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists...

More and more as climate change increases temperatures globally and alters regional rainfall, scientists are finding that the activity and foraging behaviors of animals must also change in order to adapt to the ever-changing environmental conditions.

Two University of New Mexico alumni have discovered that our changing climate is having a serious impact on population size and reproductive success of several bird species found around Albuquerque.

Researchers have found that the extinction of North America's megafauna such as large mammal species such as mammoths and saber toothed cats, dramatically changed how species interacted after the end of last ice age, the Pleistocene, some 11,000 years...

A new species of whirligig beetle is the first to be described in the United States since 1991. Grey Gustafson, a Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico, and Dr. Robert Sites, an entomologist at the University of Missouri's Enns Entomology Museum,...