I write about the world of biology. Numerous shark species are capable of inflicting mortal harm on humans. Here are ten species that ... [+] researchers know for sure have killed at least one ...

Crustacean With Panda-Like Coloring Confirmed to Be a New Species Oct. 24, 2024 — Decades after it was first found in Japan, a crustacean species with unique black-and-white coloring resembling ...

There are now at least 13 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, each filling a different niche on different islands. All of them evolved from one ancestral species, which colonized the ...

The peat soil under Whangamarino Wetland could take hundreds of years to recover after 1039ha of vegetation burned this week.

If we lived in an ordinary time—time here being understood in the long, unhurried sense of a geologic epoch—it would be nearly impossible to watch a species vanish. Such an event would occur ...

A species is a distinct group of organisms and the most basic unit used to measure life on Earth. However, there’s no single definition of a species, meaning this vital concept in biology can be ...

This is despite their ranges having shrunk ... Oct. 3, 2024 — The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last 130,000 years has led to substantial reductions in avian ...

A fire is burning in the central bog of the internationally recognised Whangamarino Wetland in Waikato - home to threatened ...

burnhamae live in Madagascar's rainforests. By Laura Baisas Posted on Oct 15, 2024 5:00 AM EDT Scientists have discovered seven new species of tree frogs in the lush rainforests of Madagascar.

If you think all frogs croak, you'd be wrong. Seven newly discovered species from the tree frog genus Boophis, found across the rainforests of Madagascar, emit special bird-like whistling sounds ...

An assessment from the International Union for Conservation of Nature paints a grim picture of the extinction risk of the world's trees Sarah Kuta The giant salmon carp was formally identified in ...

A species is a group of living organisms that are all broadly similar and can, at least in principle, breed with one another. This seems straightforward enough, but the word “species” is ...