A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral ...

Scientist jobs, federal funding, and even the Endangered Species Act are all in limbo. What does that mean for the future of ...

Long believed to be a single, globally distributed species drifting freely across the open ocean, the bluebottle – also known ...

The “curiously isolated hairstreak” butterfly is only known to inhabit a small corner of Waterton Lakes National Park in ...

A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to ...

Researchers examined 2,766 imperiled U.S. species and five drivers of diversity loss to determine what most negatively affects the diversity of species within a given group, such as amphibians ...

Photos show the new species and its “dark brown-red ... “The waters around Australia and New Zealand, and the Pacific Ocean more broadly, host a high diversity of flapjack octopods, ...

Photos show the new species and its “dark brown-red ... “The waters around Australia and New Zealand, and the Pacific Ocean more broadly, host a high diversity of flapjack octopods, ...

Scientists found a “large”-eyed creature with “slender” toes lurking in rock formations in China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Han-Ming Song via Song, Qi, Wang ...

Neutral theory describes how many species exist in an environment by connecting the number of species, how quickly new species come into existence, and the number of individual organisms. By combining ...

Surveys were carried out in 1992–1993 (S1), 2003–2004 (S2), and 2017–2018 (S3), recording high levels of species richness and diversity. We also aimed to identify the threatened species among those ...