Researchers have identified a previously unknown species of unicellular organism in seawater collected near Hachijojima Island. The newly discovered species, named Viscidocauda repens, belongs to the ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have identified a previously unknown species of unicellular organism in seawater ...

May 29, 2025 — Researchers have identified a previously unknown species of unicellular organism in seawater collected near Hachijojima Island. The newly discovered species, named Viscidocauda ...

Very little is known about choanoflagellates, and there are interesting biological phenomena that we can only gain insight ...

Tiny organisms called foraminifera can be incredibly useful for protecting coral reefs. Promovenda Elsa B. Girard developed a ...

Colossal brands itself “the de-extinction company” and has announced plans to bring back woolly mammoths and dodos and Tasmanian tigers, some of the biggest stars in the species extermination ...

It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out ...

Senate Democrats are raising the alarm over the proposed change to the definition of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). A group, including Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff (Calif.), Cory Booker (N.J ...

As the planet warms, species are shifting where, when, and how they thrive. They are moving up slopes and toward the poles. That is already altering what people can eat; sparking new disease risks ...

An invasive species is non-native to the ecosystem under consideration and whose introduction causes, or is likely to cause, economic or environmental harm, or harm to human health. Invasive species ...

A team of biophysicists has published a step-by-step guide for the reliable cultivation of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The guide will support researchers worldwide in the ...

Kumamoto (Jiji Press) — A fossilized cervical vertebra discovered back in 1996 in southwestern Japan was found to have been a new genus and species of pterosaur, a prehistoric flying reptile.