For 40 years, we thought Earth was home to six million insect species. Turns out, it could be three times that.

Colossal Biosciences is working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to launch a biobank to save endangered species.

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Biodiversity is an essential factor for ecosystem health and productivity. The number of species in an ecosystem has previously been found to positively correlate with forest productivity (the volume ...

A new global survey of 1000 forest areas shows how climate change since the peak of the last ice age has had a major impact on the diversity and distribution of tree species we see today. The results ...

Earlier this month, Bernheim Forest and Arboretum in Kentucky documented some new firefly species. Researchers discovered three fireflies, two of which do not glow in the dark. Those two are called ...

The discovery of the Chilean recluse spider (Loxosceles laeta) in Porto is the first record of this venomous species in ...

A new analysis of more than 70,000 wild animal species reveals that climate change now threatens thousands of to the planet’s wildlife, along with overexploitation and habitat degradation. The study ...

Human land use is now comparable to climate in driving global patterns of plant occurrence, with new research showing that species are not affected equally; slow-growing plants like trees are less ...