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.

Scientists expect even more new species to emerge from the region. Scientists have identified several new marine species in a pristine underwater ecosystem recently discovered in international ...

California Academy of Sciences researchers and their international collaborators discovered 146 new animal, plant and fungi species. Some of the new species include geckos, ants, flowering plants ...

A new study estimates that Earth has almost 8.8 million species, but we've only discovered about a quarter of them. And some of the yet-to-be-seen ones could be in our own backyards, scientists say.

Scientists are working on an ambitious project to store the genetic code of every living thing the planet. The plan is to capture genome information for 1.5 million plants, animals and fungi found … ...

Over 100 researchers from around the globe were involved in an effort that combined multiple forest datasets to come up with a total of 64,100 tree species documented on the planet.

This Map Shows You the Odds of Finding a New Species in Your Neighborhood The ‘Map of Life’ predicts where undiscovered birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals could be found around the world ...

Nine New Tardigrade Species Discovered Thanks to the Efforts of Danish Schoolchildren The budding scientists collected the tiny water bears in a massive citizen science project that involved ...