“The males of the other two species, you can’t easily tell them apart. [Looking] under a microscope, you can line them up and look at the relative lengths of the different parts of the male mating ...

Select FWS Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Findings for Eight Species; Morrison bumble bee (Bombus morrisoni) FWS-R2-ES-2024-0099 Select FWS Endangered and Threatened Wildlife ...

New research reveals that what was once thought to be one species, the Sydney funnel-web, is actually three distinct species. Venomous Arachnid Reclassified The Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax ...

New research reveals that damage to these environments is pushing freshwater animals to the edge of extinction, with 24% of species in danger of being wiped out. Thousands of fish, crab and ...

More information: Alassane Sow et al, Tuber cumberlandense and T. canirevelatum , two new edible Tuber species from eastern North America discovered by truffle-hunting dogs, Mycologia (2024). DOI ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely ... larger than those of earlier hominins, though only about two-thirds the size of our own. At some point, Homo erectus expanded ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday ...

Scientists in Australia say a group of “unusually large” funnel-web spiders is actually a new species in its own right ... there were three species, only two of which were previously known ...

A larger and more venomous species of one of the world's deadliest spiders has been confirmed by Australian scientists. Nicknamed 'big boy', it can grow up to 9cm (3.54 inches) compared with 5cm ...