Evidence of this explosion is present throughout the Burgess Shale, leading to its establishment as a world heritage site by ...

Thousands of feet below the surface of the Indian Ocean, a reddish sea creature with “massive eyes” used its “long” arms to ...

In two recent studies, scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin have identified and described 40 previously unknown ...

Natural ecosystems comprise groups of species capable of living in the specific conditions of a biological system. However, if we visit a specific natural area, we will not find all the species ...

As one of the sources of the Pearl River, the Nanling reserve is not only the most biologically rich nature reserve in the ...

Landscapes with heavy human pressure contain barely one-fifth of the species they could support according to a survey of ...

A proposed change in the interpretation of "harm" would degrade the power of the law that protects plants and animals from ...

Farming has caused a 44% decline in insect species and a 30% loss in evolutionary diversity, according to a JMU study.

Shrub fringes on the edges of forests and fields protect animal species and have a positive effect on biodiversity, reports a ...

Microbial ecosystems—for example, in seawater, the soil or in the human gut—are astonishingly diverse, but researchers often ...

"De-extinction" takes center stage as environmentalists express dismay over erosion of the Endangered Species Act ...

A new study combining satellite imagery with genetic analysis reveals that climate and land use changes are driving increased ...