Department of Biology

Take a look behind the Friday Harbor Laboratories where students can study everything from orcas to algae on the rocky shores of San Juan Island.

A grant from the National Science Foundation to bring six Native American undergraduate students to their first scientific meeting

UW Biology Professor Peter Ward encounters one of the world's rarest animals, one he hasn't seen in over three decades. 

Prof. P. Dee Boersma is nominated for the 2016 Indianapolis Prize, the biggest award in the field.

UW Biology Professor Dee Boersma named a finalist in recognition of her work documenting the impacts of climate change on penguins.

A team of scientists has identified a new species of “pre-mammal” based on fossils unearthed in Zambia’s Luangwa Basin.

The commercial life sciences industry in the Seattle area isn't the only part of the sector that's booming.

Researchers have identified a fossil found in the San Juan Islands as a dinosaur bone dating back 80 million years.

How elephant dung and ivory tusk samples can help save the African elephant

Illegal wildlife trade has become the world’s fourth-largest international organized crime, according to a recent UW Biology study.

A new research project led by the University of Washington aims to uncover the aeronautical secrets of some of nature’s best designed flyers.

New research shows that mosquitoes find targets by following the scent of the air we exhale, then using sight and body heat sensors to close in.

A team of biologists from the University of Washington and the California Institute of Technology has cracked the cues mosquitoes use to find us.

The UW-based Conservation magazine has won a gold award in a national competition sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

One of the questions raised by climate change has been whether it could cause more species of animals to interbreed.