A team of researchers has identified and described Vulcanoscaptor ninoti ("the Camp dels Ninots volcano digger"), a ...

Museum ichthyologist Cristhian Conde-Saldaña uses evolutionary genetics to study freshwater fishes and document at-risk ...

Homo is the genus that includes modern humans and their close relatives. The genus is estimated to be between 1.5 and 2.5 million years old. All species except Homo sapiens are extinct. Homo ...

Taxonomy is the science that attempts to categorise the many millions of species on Earth. Find out how to define taxonomy, what taxonomists do and why classifying life is so important. Taxonomy ...

The wooly devil’s discovery is a great story about the scientific process. After Manley and a park ranger first spotted it in March 2023, they consulted herbarium records, plant taxonomy ...

Manitoba is well-known for its fossil record, including the fossil-filled, world-famous Ordovician-aged Tyndall Stone and the ...

On top of Homo sapiens, at least eight other species of our genus have walked Earth: Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, Homo erectus, Homo antecessor, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo naledi, Homo ...

A photo uploaded to popular citizen science social network iNaturalist is a snapshot of the first new genus and species of plant discovered in a US national park in almost 50 years. The wooly ...

A new genus of butterflies has been named Saurona in honor of one of fiction’s greatest villains. ... Laura is Popular Science’s news editor, overseeing coverage of a wide variety of subjects.

The newly-discovered genus has been named Johanseniella while the species has been named Tripurensis as it was discovered in Tripura Thursday, Jun 19, 2025 New Delhi o C ...