Department of Biology

The loss of forests worldwide appears to interact synergistically to produce unpredictable effects on the global climate.

Climate models reveal possibility of woodland El Niño.

A team of scientists examining seized shipments of elephant tusks from Africa have found that the vast majority of the ivory came from elephants that died within the last 3 years.

Technology by itself will not save pangolins or elephants, but it can help make major progress.

A research team led by University of Washington biology professor Tom Daniel has teased out how hawkmoths integrate signals from two sensory systems: vision and touch.

UW biologists use Tucker, a rescue dog, to gather information about killer whales. 

The arrest of a key member of an ivory-trafficking group is a bright spot in an otherwise complicated season for African elephants

If UW's Robert Paine had been a physicist, chemist or cell biologist, he likely would have been in contention for a Nobel Prize for coining the term "keystone species."

After Monday's presidential debate, MSNBC's Chuck Todd critiqued the candidates' performances -- and ruffled feathers online with an unusual denunciation.

UW biologist Dee Boersma and her colleagues combed through 28 years’ worth of data on Magellanic penguins for signs that natural selection may be acting on certain traits. 

Teachers at the Burke's DIG Field School in Montana had a close encounter with a long-buried T. rex.

For years we have been told that jellyfish are growing in numbers and will swarm the oceans. But this may not be true

A 2010 study showed that 20 percent of lizard species would likely be extinct by 2080 due to climate change. Now researchers say it may be much worse.

The corpse flower at the Volunteer Park Conservatory may be a dud. The flower, on loan from the UW biology department, has been removed after it failed to reach its full bloom.

Researchers at the University of Washington are hoping to answer that question. NPR's Scott Simon talks to biology and pathology professor Daniel Promislow about the Dog Aging Project.