New research from the University of St. Andrews has shown that higher extinction risk is associated with a higher frequency ...

A new paper, the Ocean Species Discoveries (OSD), describes a ground-breaking experiment that united 25 independent taxonomists from ten countries. The initiative boasts the discovery of eleven new ...

A new survey attempts to fill some of the gaps in understanding by synthesizing the perspectives of thousands of biodiversity experts worldwide. The survey received 3,331 responses from scientists ...

To better understand what drives biological diversity on Earth, scientists have historically looked at genetic differences between species. But this only provides part of the picture. The traits of a ...

Experts in UK digitise specimens collected over past two centuries – raising hope of potential medical breakthroughs ...

A bird long thought to be a single rare species in Japan has turned out to be two. Scientists discovered that the elusive ...

An international research team, which included University of Tartu visiting doctoral student Wen-Gang Zhang and Professor of ...

Researchers have documented 115 edible forest species and a wealth of indigenous ecological knowledge in one of Africa's most ...

Earth’s habitats are facing a big increase in the number of alien species they have to deal with. These are organisms transported beyond their original habitats as a result of human activities, where ...