When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, humans had been the only species with reported cases...
Scientists are on the brink of resurrecting extinct species. Emblematic species such as the woolly mammoth, the dodo and the thylacine...
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title of course: Space/Power/Species What...
A group of scientists has proposed an ambitious plan to preserve Earth's biodiversity by creating a cryogenic biorepository on...
SINGAPORE: At Singapore's House of Seafood restaurant, the fish-head curry comes with a side of crunchy crickets, the tofu has...
The world's loneliest tree may soon find a mate, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI).Only a single, male specimen of the Wood's...
The bird was actually a rare and elusive great potoo, a species of octopus-like birds that feed on large insects and small vertebrates....
Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we're the last sentence in an evolutionary...
Humans are very good at wiping out wildlife. From dodos, to golden toads, to Tasmanian tigers, many species have succumbed to our unique...
Scientists in China may have identified a newfound species of vampire squid — only the second known species in the world. Vampire...
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Scientists have identified and named over a million animal species, and there are millions more yet to be discovered across Earth's...
In the animal kingdom, organisms can be named after anything — an odd behavior, a strange sound and even a funny appearance....
Many people could differentiate a sparrow from a pigeon, hawk or duck. But to a biologist, the term "sparrow" wouldn't be descriptive...
Scientists are using artificial intelligence (AI) to identify new animal species. But can we trust the results?For now, scientists...
The tidy classification of organisms into different species forms the foundation of modern biology. THE SPECIES CRISIS(Image credit:...
In 2016, scientists published a paper with a bold claim: that the giraffe, first described as a species by Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus...
Beachgoers were stunned when a massive, 7-foot-long (2 meters) fish with a round body, huge fins and bulging eyes washed up along the...
