An ambitious plan to sequence genomes for 1.85 million eukaryotic species on our planet is underway. It's a massive ...

Researchers have published a comprehensive study on the significance of species differences for the most central cell maintenance mechanisms. The researchers used the brown hare (Lepus europaeus) and ...

Some scientists looking to preserve vulnerable species have turned to a controversial technique: synthetic biology. This ...

Researchers from around the world have made a very cool toad-related discovery. They identified three previously unknown ...

Twenty-four students, 19 seniors and five graduate students, in Professor David Berg’s Conservation Biology class on Miami’s Hamilton campus have had the chance to impact the future of endangered ...

Mármol and his colleagues extracted RNA sequences from the muscles and skin of 10 permafrozen woolly mammoth specimens found ...

New research has shed light on the vast and largely unmonitored trade of wildlife around the world, revealing alarming ...

The Portuguese man-of-war, or Physalia, is a jelly-like creature that uses a special gas-filled balloon to float on the sea ...

The results of the new study, published last month in the journal Subterranean Biology, spread rapidly online due to the striking images of the giant 1,140-square-foot spider web, a carpet-thick ...

Droughts are having a major impact on Europe's forests—and climate change could make them even more frequent—but diversity ...