Some 144 bird species had not been seen in at least a decade, but a project by conservation organizations proposes they all may still be hidden somewhere in the wild. Clockwise from top left ...

A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art might portray an ancient species preserved as fossils in the same region, according to a new study.

Sep. 16, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a new species of fish, the 'grumpy dwarfgoby'. Found among coral reefs in the Red Sea, it has large canines and a fierce expression, even though it is ...

The noisy-but-shy bird, known as the hoiho, has earned the most votes for a second time amid threats to its survival Alexa Robles-Gil It's rare for apex predators to become prey, but researchers ...

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 ...

On scales ranging anywhere from hundreds to millions of years depending on the organism, one or more of these processes eventually results in a distinct population becoming a new species. There’s no ...

From early humans rubbing sticks together to make fire, to the fossil fuels that drove the industrial revolution, energy has played a central role in our development as a species. But the way we ...

So many places on Earth still remain a mystery to us, even after all this time — but researchers are often discovering new species. Better access to genetic testing, as well as technological ...

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 ...

But there's more to this unexpected mutualistic relationship than that. These species of spider and frog have been found in the same area, and even share the same burrows. The frogs use the ...

Some of the 126 species on their list haven’t been photographed or recorded in more than century Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent A species that was previously considered lost, the black-naped ...

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 ...