Wickedly addictive, the iNaturalist app identifies unfamiliar species you find on your travels or in your backyard. And it does a lot more besides.

Today, we explore another software product, iNaturalist (iNat for short), that also uses artificial intelligence to train the software to identify organisms. iNaturalist first appeared in 2013 and ...

KINGSTON — The Kingston Conservation Department and Conservation Commission are hosting an event to teach how to use an app that helps identify local wildlife.. Intern Finn Doherty will explain ...

We hear a lot these days how people spend too much time with their electronic devices. But for me, as someone who has always ...

The nonprofit iNaturalist announced that it received a $1.5-million grant from Google’s philanthropic arm to develop ...

The app creators say it can now (as of 2025) identify about 77,000 of the 360,000 species on the planet, which was generally good enough for our testers’ purposes, using plants in both urban and ...

If you've ever wondered which plants are growing in your backyard, these apps are for you. Whether you’re a gardener, naturalist or just a lover of wildlife, plant identification can be a wonderful ...

A new study shows apps like Google Lens, iNaturalist, and Plant Snap aren’t always accurate when identifying plants. Here’s how to use them safely.

She really digs the iNaturalist app for your phone. Download the app, take pictures, and you get all sorts of cool info about the plant. In addition, the app records date and coordinates.

One of the most popular species identification tools is iNaturalist. Since its creation in 2008, the app has logged more than 145 million observations from around the world.

I started using iNaturalist in 2018. I had been using the app, a free citizen science platform that defies easy categorization, to record the wildlife I observed as I traveled. A sort of real-life ...