For nearly two centuries, a small brown frog living in Southeast Asian rainforests was considered a single, well-understood ...
Scientists discover thousands of new species every year, and a surprising number of those creatures end up named after pop ...
Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...
Earth’s vertebrate diversity may be far richer than anyone realized. A sweeping analysis of more than 300 studies suggests that for every known fish, bird, reptile, amphibian, or mammal species, there ...
Scientists are identifying more than 16,000 new species each year, and DNA tools could reveal billions more hiding.
When a new species is discovered, it's tempting to imagine an adventure novel, said Chan Kin Onn of Michigan State University. "Most people have this image of an intrepid explorer braving an isolated ...
The semi-aquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus mirabilis, was discovered by an international team of scientists working in Niger.
From bird-dropping mimics to legless burrowers, these newly discovered species were hiding right under our noses.
The world has far more bees than anyone realized. Scientists have, for the first time, estimated just how many species of ...
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