More than 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus began an ambitious effort to identify and name every living ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

A new study shows scientists are discovering new species faster than ever, revealing Earth still holds vast unknown ...

New species are being discovered faster than ever before — at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study. And the trend shows no sign of slowing with scientists predicting that the ...

As companies search underwater for resources, scientists are taking inventory of the ocean-dwelling creatures that could be ...

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species ...

Overharvesting has raised conservation concerns for a widely foraged plant, but researchers say that better genetic insights ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

An international team discovered new types of butterflies that lay hidden in plain sight at the Natural History Museum.

Researchers retrieved reef monitoring devices that had been placed in deep coral reefs in Guam. The devices were placed up to 330 feet below the surface.

By Shreya Dasgupta Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red ...