Dr. Amy Baird, Professor of Biology at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD), and her colleagues are seeking to change the ...

Four tarantulas discovered in Arabia and Africa form a new genus, Satyrex, distinguished by males with unusually long palps ...

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...

Kristofer M. Helgen is affiliated with the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii. Erik Meijaard and Tim Flannery do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its wild relatives, revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species and ...

Botanists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) named the new species, Clusia nanophylla, because of the tiny size of the leaves, the smallest within the genus. This species has only ...

While you may not frequently visit humid environments, such as rainforests, the animal life in damp locations may look a bit different than you expect. There’s a reason certain animals that thrive in ...