Travis LaDuc, who oversees UT Austin’s herpetology collection at the Biodiversity Center in the College of Natural Sciences, spoke to UT News.

UT scientists study how droughts affect local ecosystems at the Brackenridge Field Laboratory and the Stengl Lost Pines Biological Station.

New research provides the latest evidence that climate change is having an impact on food webs in high-latitude ecosystems.

A new long-running project allows undergraduate students to gain hands-on experience with ecological research in the heart of the UT Austin campus.

A transformative donation allows for the expansion of a Texas Field Station Network to study biodiversity and sustainability.

In some species, female and male butterflies apparently perceive colors differently.

Poison frogs are able to withstand a toxin which they use to deter predators, but not without a cost.

Among U.S. universities, UT ranks 17th in natural sciences, 8th in physical sciences and 7th in chemistry.

University of Texas at Austin integrative biology professor Shalene Jha studies critical link in the web of life: plants and pollinators.

An invasive grass causing havoc in Texas and contributing to wildfires packs a one-two wallop against native plants. Guinea grass uses a combination of crowding that blocks out light from growing seedlings and what amounts to a chemical warfare in soil that is toxic to native plants, according to a new study by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.