The strawberry guava, one of the world’s worst invasive species, hinders forest restoration on the island while feeding its ...

Barry Hughes, a volunteer in the Condon Fossil Collection, opens a drawer containing the head of a saber-tooth tiger and ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are quite a few Star Wars fans among biologists. These ones have used their opportunity to name a new species to make reference to their beloved franchise.

“Living fossil” is often misused, but chitons really haven’t changed much in about 300 million years.

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

If you follow media coverage of koalas, you could be forgiven for feeling confused. Recent stories describe a “koala paradox”: endangered in the north of Australia, abundant in the south; genetically ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Biodiversity loss is emerging as a systemic risk to the global economy and financial stability, a landmark report said on Monday, urging companies to act now or potentially ...

A sought-after feature in high-end homes has long been a primitive void in the heart of the great room: the wood-burning fireplace. “There is absolutely a preference toward wood-burning fireplaces, ...

Beef prices are soaring — and economists warn Americans shouldn’t expect relief anytime soon, as the U.S. cattle herd shrinks to its smallest size in 75 years. The massive decrease in cattle numbers ...

A new exhibition about birds ranges from old masters paintings to contemporary art. The show is “a mad sprawl of instincts and intuitions,” says its curator, Simon Schama. “The Goldfinch” by Carel ...

Very few people alive today have seen the Appalachian forests as they existed a century ago. Even as state and national parks preserved ever more of the ecosystem, fungal pathogens from Asia nearly ...