A fossil discovery of an ancient relative of the Australian magpie which lived in New Zealand some 19 million years ago ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals how an ancient, vanished sea continues to shape the diversity of soft corals.

Ocean drifters once thought identical are actually several species. Genetics and ocean modeling uncover unexpected isolation.

More Than 500 Birds Will Vanish From Earth in the Coming Century, According to a New Study Several human activities have ...

Tyler Kartzinel likens protecting biodiversity to enhancing cellphone networks. His analogy is pretty straightforward: look for gaps in coverage, and then do what’s needed to fill them. “Engineers ...

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

Animal conservationists often move elephants between herds to improve biodiversity and group health, but what if the elephants don't speak the same language?

Federal job cuts and a proposed change to the Endangered Species Act could bring grizzly reintroduction efforts grinding to ...

Genetic analysis reveals bluebottles are actually four distinct species, overturning two centuries of scientific belief.

Patterns of species diversity are essential to understand community structure. We aimed to determine species diversity and patterns of beta diversity in different spatial scales. We sampled three ...

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