Ecologists Reveal Key Genetic Insights for the Conservation of Iconic Cockatoo Species Jan. 13, 2025 — Ecologists have made valuable discoveries that could transform the conservation of two ...

In the mountain streams of Indonesia, two new “fanged” creatures were discovered. Ryan 'O' Niel via Unsplash Ducking hanging branches and stepping over stones, researchers in the Meratus ...

Specially trained dogs and their impressive noses helped a team of researchers and citizen scientists discover two new species of the truffles. The “truffle dogs” sniffed out Tuber ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation. There were 42 new additions to the national list of ...