There's something make-believe, almost Pokémon-like in a new species of bacteria found living on a mud flat in Oregon.

A snail named after painter Pablo Picasso is one of many species named after artists, but some researchers question whether ...

Bourque’s co-worker and co-author, Edward Stanley, helped use machine learning and artificial intelligence to compare the ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its wild relatives, revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species ...

A new mammal species discovered in Mongolia reveals surprising insights into ancient inland ecosystems and the dietary habits ...

Last year, in an issue of our monthly newsletter for Yakima Master Gardeners, Jenny Mansfield recounted a stroll through her ...

By comparing the sequence of nearly 1,000 genes from each species, the researchers built a family tree of the genus and then used biogeographical analysis to trace its origin to about 56 million ...

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the ...

The mangave is a hybrid between the Agave and the former Manfreda genera. It has diverse forms and colors and thrives in hot ...

KUMAMOTO (Kyodo) -- A fossil found nearly three decades ago in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has been identified to be a previously unclassified genus and species of pterosaur ...

New genus and species The genus name Saurichthysderives from the Greek word "sauros" meaning lizard and the Greek word "Ichthus"meaning fish. The species name justicias derives from the Latin term ...