A set of fossils discovered in East China's Fujian province has been identified as the only known unambiguous record of ...

IT is now at least eight years since there have been any flutterings in the cytological dovecot. Everyone had settled down to a cell containing a nucleus with chromosomes, karyoplasm, karyosome ...

With an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the existence of other technological species is highly likely, potentially even within our Milky Way galaxy.

DURING the last ten years geneticists have been getting to grips with the problems of evolutionary change ; Prof. Dobzhansky describes the results of their work in this book. The first edition ...

Feb. 3, 2025 — A new study has estimated it would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99 of Australia's priority species. The research highlights the urgent need ...

The birds, three dozen in all, were members of a species called the northern bald ibis: funny-looking, totemic, nearly extinct. The humans were a team of scientists and volunteers, Austrians and ...

Are humans the only species to drive another to extinction? Tom Ruppel | Dixon, California Human activities are the most prominent cause of species extinction today, but not the only one.

Paleontologists have dug up new dinosaur drama. Researchers identified a new dinosaur species that lived in Africa roughly 95 million years ago and published their findings last week in the ...

Dinosaur fossils discovered by paleontologists working with the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been determined to be the oldest-known fossils, presenting evidence that the species was in ...

The scientific field pushes the boundaries of biotechnology in a way that will make it possible to save other species on the brink and offers a promising way to better protect and preserve present ...

Darwin kept silent for 20 years before going public and was only half joking when he described writing his book 'On the Origin of Species' as 'like confessing a murder'. This is the story of one ...

Alhough they cover only around 6 per cent of the Earth’s land surface, 40 per cent of all plant and animal species live or breed in wetlands. Wetland biodiversity matters for our health ...