The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species each year, revealing far more biodiversity than expected across animals, ...

Moving cannabis to a category of drugs that includes some common medicines will have implications for research, businesses and patients. By Jan Hoffman President Trump on Thursday ordered cannabis to ...

Automatic, wall-to-wall monitoring of forests from remote sensing data is a dream slowly becoming a reality. One barrier to development is the laborious task of developing quality ground reference ...

Biologists at the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission have discovered a new species and genus of mussel called Ligodonta obscura, or the solstice creekmussel. The mussel was first found in ...

Some of the eggs laid by Iberian harvester ant queens contain males of another species, the builder harvester ant – and these males father all of the workers in the colony. “This statement sounds ...

Accurately identifying fracture zones and their types in strata is of great significance for enhancing oil and gas recovery efficiency. Due to its complicated geological structure and long-term ...

A new study reveals that the majority of Earth’s species stem from a few evolutionary explosions, where new traits or habitats sparked rapid diversification. From flowers to birds, these bursts ...

New research identifies 10,443 critically endangered species worldwide, with effective protection strategies available if funding and political will follow. More than 1,500 species, or 15% of the ...

A crocodile DNA study has revealed two previously unknown Crocodylus species in the Caribbean. The crocodiles live on Cozumel and Banco Chinchorro, where they're threatened by human activities. When ...

Abstract: In the fields of biodiversity conservation, agricultural management, ecological monitoring, etc., the value of plant species identification and classification is immeasurable, but ...