Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

Our brains can spot real biodiversity using sight and sound alone, according to scientists studying how humans perceive nature.

In Vienna, Europe's second-largest cemetery has embraced biodiversity – without disturbing the dead. Some of the greats are ...

Our oceans are as remarkable as they are mysterious; the deep dark waters as foreign to us as far-reaching planets. Though ...

The organization of life on Earth follows a simple, hidden rule known as “core-to-transition organization.” Hypothesized by ...

Some countries are more biodiverse than others because their territories are able to support a variety of animal species ...

Festus Adegbola’s work on the BioSCape project monitors — from the air — how plants and wildfires influence bird diversity.

Fossils from Earth’s biggest extinction reveal forest collapse triggered runaway warming - offering a warning for today’s ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Chunks of flipped DNA appear to accelerate evolution in fish. This discovery could reshape our understanding of how biodiversity arises. Scientists have discovered that segments of “flipped” DNA help ...

A UK biotech firm spent years gathering genetic data that has uncovered 1 million previously unknown microbial species and billions of newly identified genes – but even this trove of data may not be e ...