The desert of southern Peru is a barren and rocky wilderness where it rains less than an inch each year. But when viewed from above, strange lines take shape across the landscape, forming geometric ...

A global map of alien bird species has been produced for the first time by a team of researchers. It shows that human activities are the main determinants of how many alien bird species live in an ...

Whether 'alien' bird species thrive in a new habitat depends more on the environmental conditions than the population size or characteristics of the invading bird species, finds a new study. Published ...

Tim Blackburn's research was supported in part by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust. Species introduced by humans to areas where they don’t naturally occur are a worldwide problem. These “alien ...

Aliens do well around other aliens, according to new research that suggests that invasive bird species such as the common myna are more likely to thrive if there are other introduced species in the ...