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

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

For three summers in a row, researchers working in the Mai Po Nature Reserve noticed something unusual drifting through the ...

If you’re thinking of planting a new tree in your yard, put down the shovel and check out this new guide from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. The Michigan Communities Trees Species ...

Scientists have newly described three extraordinary species of tree toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole stage. The females give birth on land to dozens of toadlets, each measuring just a few ...

It started in 2018, and is projected to cost nearly US$5 billion in total. EBP includes more than 60 global affiliated projects to record and sequence genomes, and it's contributed data for 4,386 ...

Image compiled from various Creative Commons sources. For centuries, researchers have painstakingly worked to fill out the tree of life. We’ve made some good progress. But in one sense, we’ve barely ...

Topps' new flagship basketball product, set to release this month, is already generating a lot of buzz amongst the card collecting community. And the recent release of the images of rare inserts adds ...

To properly manage a tree, you need to know what species it is. Plus, tree identification is a lot of fun. Knowing a tree’s species is key to understanding their proper growing conditions, how to ...

Fantastic Fest is just around the corner, and veteran director Eugène Green is firing up his magic broomstick to deliver his darkly comedic fable The Tree of Knowledge to Austin, Texas, for the ...

Kali Middleby received funding from James Cook University, the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment, and Skyrail Rainforest Foundation. Lucas Cernusak receives funding from the Australian Research ...