Chappuis overcame the challenge of deep mixed-gas diving, which has led many divers to experience decompression sickness, ...

For decades, an "extremely rare" fossil sat unidentified in Japan's Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in ...

Scientists know of four New World crocodile species, but a new study highlights potential fifth and sixth additions to the reptilian family. The two new crocodile species are each endemic to an ...

A truly automated process ROADIES—which stands for "Reference-free, Orthology-free, Annotation-free, Discordance-aware Estimation of Species Trees"—stands apart from existing phylogenetic ...

A tiny new species of snail with an unusual shell has been named after the painter Pablo Picasso. Researchers who discovered the three-millimetre creature say they came up with the name because ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

A new butterfly species, Satyrium curiosolus, has been discovered in Alberta. Isolated for millennia, it shows unique traits and faces conservation risks due to low genetic diversity. In Canada’s ...

“However, we also found that A. porcatus and (the eastern Cuba green anole) are geographically isolated, genetically divergent and that both species are ecologically distinct from one another and from ...

Dr Rowley is among a team of about 25 of the country's top biologists that have travelled to Jawoyn country, near Katherine in the Northern Territory, to catalogue the region's unique species.

Understanding more about threatened and endangered species, the roles they historically played in their habitats, and what it takes to protect them can lead to positive outcomes for animals and ...

She first joined PEOPLE in 2025 as a Night Digital News Writer. alexis chappius A species of coelacanth, a fish that dates back to before the dinosaurs, has been photographed in Indonesia for the ...

Apr. 22, 2025 — A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its wild relatives, revealed the evolutionary relationships ...