This species grows in hot and dry climates ... The most popular types include Cattleya, moth orchids, and slipper orchids. These flowers have long been associated with romance and love but ...

Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado—the world's largest and most floristically diverse ...

Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado -- the world's largest and most floristically diverse savanna -- account for nearly half of all its trees. The 'hyperdominance' by ...

House Republicans passed a measure on May 1 that would repeal the government's decision to place California's longfin smelt, a finger-sized fish, on the endangered species list. House members ...

Scientists added descriptive terms to the existing general Indigenous frog and reptile names to make them specific.

Huge reptiles don’t typically make the list. However, a team of scientists from Canada, Mexico, and Panama claims they’ve discovered two previously unknown crocodile species off the Yucatán ...

NEW YORK (WBNG) -- Several New York animals are now on the endangered species list. The endangered species list had not been updated since 1999, so these changes give environmental workers a more ...

The researchers added the “curious” to the butterfly’s common name because of its uniquely “small population size and high degree of long-term isolation.” ...

The Trump administration is trumpeting a biotech company’s claim of reviving a long-lost wolf as an argument for slashing endangered species protections. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences said ...

A new butterfly species, Satyrium curiosolus, has been discovered in Alberta. Isolated for millennia, it shows unique traits ...