A University of Arizona study finds scientists are discovering 16,000 new species annually — and DNA tools may reveal ...

Scientists say Earth could contain billions of undiscovered species, and new DNA tools may accelerate discoveries faster than ever.

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 ...

Dwarfing every living thing around them millions of years ago, Prototaxites have long defied scientific classification ...

Scientists in South Korea identified Acanthochitona feroxa, a new chiton species long mistaken for a nearly identical mollusk.

A creature whose relatives evolved roughly 500 million years ago — before dinosaurs, before trees — was sitting on the ocean floor off South Korea, misidentified as something it wasn’t. Two biologists ...

How many fossils does it take to accurately train an image-based AI algorithm? According to a new study co-authored by Bruce ...

There has been a long-standing debate regarding the theory of “Species as Individuals (SAI)” within biological philosophy. Scholars such as Ghiselin, Hull, Mishler, and Brandon have played pivotal ...

Phytoplankton are tiny ocean organisms that naturally sequester carbon, like plants on land. That's made them an intriguing target as a climate solution. Here & Now's Sarah McCammon speaks to Matt ...

Former athlete and Emmy-winning sports reporter Lindsay Simpson suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2018 that nearly took her life. At a recent event held by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

Some of the littlest organisms in the ocean wield incredible influence, both on their ecosystems and on the planet. Like plants do on land, phytoplankton absorb sunlight and carbon dioxide and expel ...