Scientists from China studied a few different cockatoos, including the critically endangered Yellow-crested cockatoo that has ...

Biologists, using a technique that explores both genes and structural characteristics, have introduced 10 new species of marine sponge. Despite their distinction as one of Earth's oldest lifeforms and ...

Neanderthals clung onto existence in Eurasia until roughly 40,000 years ago, yet new research suggests that their numbers declined drastically around 70,000 years prior to their eventual extinction.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not a panacea for effortlessly solving the planet’s environmental problems. AI still sparks ...

A newly discovered deepwater tilefish, Branchiostegus sanae, has been named after San from Princess Mononoke due to its unique facial markings. Researchers confirmed its new-species status through ...

Perhaps you’d also like to believe that humans are more complex than a worm that is used precisely for its simplicity. For ...

Researchers in China have named a newly discovered fish species after the Studio Ghibli character San from "Princess Mononoke ...

Bárbara Calegari: No, not really. The genus of fish we were studying, Barbatula, is known for its genetic diversity. However, the individual species have a similar morphology, meaning similar external ...

Nature is full of impostors, and many of them are found in the insect world. Certain species, such as the bee fly or the ant ...

For the first time ever, an international study led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), a joint centre of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (the Spanish National ...

“The sacred ibis is an alien species, which should not exist in Italy; it escaped, or was released, from farms in northern Italy. Its history is similar to that of the nutria,” said Ravagnan ...

Background: Asparagus L. is a large genus widely distributed across the continents of the Old World. Among its members, approximately 14 species found in China are recognized as popular herbal ...