For the first time, scientists have created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all known bird species, synthesizing data from nearly 300 studies published between 1990 and 2024. This ...

Guided by their teachers, nearly 30,000 Danish schoolchildren, ages 7 to 16, helped scientists from the Natural History ...

Scientists named a staggering 190 new species in 2024. The list, which comes from London’s Natural History Museum (NHM) and elsewhere, includes a vegetarian piranha and a rat endemic to a single ...

Take the giraffe. In 1758, the Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus described a single species of giraffe: Giraffa camelopardalis. Although the species has declined in recent decades, 117,000 giraffes ...

More than 100 potentially new species were found off the Chilean coast by deep-sea ... “Every single seamount had a different type of ... delivered every morning. Sign up. Advertisement.

The Endangered Species Act requires that every U.S. plant and animal be saved from extinction, but after 50 years, we have to do much more to prevent a biodiversity crisis ...

More than 100 possible new marine species discovered in a single deepsea expedition. ... We'll send you a weekly roundup of the best CBC Radio programming every Friday. Email address: ...

When a global pandemic forced previous a graduate student out of the lab and onto the computer, he found a world of difference hidden in the long-studied species of Botryoccocus braunii -- and ...

Geologists have discovered 10 new species of trilobite in a relatively unstudied area of Thailand. These extinct sea creatures were hidden for 490 million years and are helping scientists create a ...