The classification of animal groups is essential to the development of modern biology—but it's extremely complicated. Trying to shoehorn the messy, complicated web of interrelationships that is ...

Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...

The genetic analysis detected 367 different plant species across the samples. More remarkably, individual elephants showed ...

Nashville could see several inches of snow and ice over the weekend, likely impacting travel and business into the following ...

Nashville could see several inches of snow and ice over the weekend, likely impacting travel and business into the following ...

For over a century, it was assumed that science had a handle on the big categories of life on Earth: plants, animals, fungi, ...

Good Mood Ranch remains open in East Naples as it fights code enforcement and regulatory actions over the clearing of ...

After reviewing recent genetic, morphological, and biogeographic studies on giraffes, scientists have now split the single ...

Nancy Shute discusses how scientists are beginning to study animals’ emotions and personalities — from joy to individual ...

New research published in Nature Ecology and Evolution reveals significant recent shifts in tree diversity among the tropical ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

Many mammal populations in European and North American zoos are aging—a trend that jeopardizes the long-term viability of so-called reserve populations and, with it, a core mission of modern zoos in ...