Camouflage is a common defensive strategy among animals. By modifying their coloration and patterning, animals evade ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

Scientists from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have compared several methods ...

and Tibetan species from moving southward. Because of its youthfulness, the Himalaya has not yet evolved plant and animal life uniquely adapted to its terrain; flora and fauna are instead an ...

an alpine plant and its long-term co-evolution with an insect herbivore. Growing on the rocky slopes of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Corydalis hemidicentra exists in two distinct forms: one with ...