From small to vast ranges, species diversity grows unevenly. With a shrinking planet and climate change, biodiversity is ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

A recent discovery in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, has unveiled a new mammal species that dates back to the Late Cretaceous ...

Scientists have made an exciting discovery on Misima Island in Papua New Guinea, identifying a previously unknown species of ...

Last year in early June it was too early, we thought, for fireflies in Colorado. For weeks we had been checking weather forecasts, comparing them to previous years, waiting for warmer nights and ...

New genomic analysis findings could help inform breeding efforts for apples that are tastier and more resilient. A ...

Aptly nicknamed the “bone collector,” the larva haunts a six-square-mile patch of Oahu’s Wai‘anae Mountains, lurking exclusively in spider webs and disguising itself in the corpses of its prey.

The Trump administration’s attempt to weaken the Endangered Species Act is easy to criticize. This month, it proposed a rule ...

Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago ...

Scientists have identified a new species of ancient mammal from a small jawbone found in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.

Naming all the creatures and plants in nature is no small task. Fortunate Phaka is a zoologist who has conducted the first ...

Researchers have dubbed it Ca.Electrothrix yaqonensis. That’s in honor of the Yaqona tribal people, whose descendants are now ...