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 ...

Spruce, beech and larch mixed forest, Val Raccolana, Italian Julian Alps, Italy. Scientists estimate that over 9,000 types of trees remain hidden in the world’s forests and elsewhere just ...

The answer can be found in this interactive map spotted by Popular Mechanics. ... "New dinosaurs are being discovered every year, to the tune of a new species every month or two." ...

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

One hundred new species of lichenized fungi Date: March 21, 2011 Source: Field Museum Summary: One hundred newly discovered species are revealed to the world in a single article.

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 … ...

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: ...

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 ...

Making every single species count: saving the Lear’s macaw. The stability of every ecosystem relies on a complex interaction of often thousands of species—the loss of any one can bring disaster.

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 ...