Researchers have discovered a new species of "ghost shark" that exclusively lives in the deep waters surrounding Australia and New Zealand. The Australasian narrow-nosed spookfish has a long ...

A bee in your bonnet has nothing on a wasp in your belly. Mississippi scientists have discovered a new species of wasp that lays eggs in living flies so the babies burst out of their bellies ...

A newly identified wasp species, Chrysonotomyia susbelli, has been discovered in Houston, Texas, marking the 18th new species identified by Rice University's Scott Egan and his research team since ...

Oct. 10, 2024 — They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation -- which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes -- seems to hold in ...

A species is a distinct group of organisms and the most basic unit used to measure life on Earth. However, there’s no single definition of a species, meaning this vital concept in biology can be ...

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 ...

Florida International University (FIU) scientists have finally identified a new species of hammerhead shark years after first collecting samples, but the shark's official discovery comes as its ...

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 ...

"The ongoing discovery of distinctive new species like this grumpy dwarfgoby shows how much biodiversity remains undiscovered in the Red Sea," Nunes Peinemann explains. "This is concerning given ...

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 ...

Stated plainly, the vast majority of intentionally or unintentionally introduced species are not a threat to native ecosystems. Governments and conservation organizations spend an enormous amount ...