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 ...

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Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to categorize. Researchers in the UK have suggested ...

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

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

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

There are many types of penguins, a family of flightless aquatic birds that live primarily in the Southern Hemisphere. Read ...

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 ...