Many of these Cestrum species are known for tubular blooms, especially popular among hummingbirds. The skinny, night-opening, greenish or yellowish-white corollas of the Night-Blooming Jessamine, ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Creating a buzz in Nature this week, a Mississippi State biologist’s research has led to the discovery of a new parasitic wasp species with unusual biology in the Eastern U.S., ...

When invasive species are introduced to an area where they are not native, they can cause ecological damage. Many times the species are brought accidentally or purposefully through trade then ...

It found sponge gardens and ancient corals. Researchers have also discovered 150 previously unknown species along the mountain ridge to the Salas y Gómez Ridge to Rapa Nui, also known as Easter ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of ghost shark that lives in deep ocean waters near Australia and New Zealand. The Australasian Narrow-nosed Spookfish, or Harriotta avia, was found in the ...

An international team of researchers delved into museum collections and discovered new species of sponge-associated zoantharian, a small colonial organism similar to anemones. Dr. Javier ...

So many places on Earth still remain a mystery to us, even after all this time — but researchers are often discovering new species. Better access to genetic testing, as well as technological ...

The species likely began to spread with the opening of the Suez Canal. An aggressive species of invasive seagrass that has been traversing the oceans for more than a century has been detected in ...

Sep. 18, 2024 — A newly identified wasp species, Chrysonotomyia susbelli, has been discovered in Houston, Texas. The discovery, the fourth wasp species found on the university grounds in seven ...

If we lived in an ordinary time—time here being understood in the long, unhurried sense of a geologic epoch—it would be nearly impossible to watch a species vanish. Such an event would occur ...

Number of Fish Species at Risk of Extinction Fivefold Higher Than Previous Estimates, According to a New Prediction Aug. 29, 2024 — Researchers predict that 12.7% of marine teleost fish species ...

A species is a group of living organisms that are all broadly similar and can, at least in principle, breed with one another. This seems straightforward enough, but the word “species” is ...