And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

Scientists described numerous new species this past year, from the world’s smallest otter in India to a fanged hedgehog from Southeast Asia, tree-dwelling frogs in Madagascar, and a new family of ...

Managing hairy bittercress early in container production can help growers improve their ornamental production. Its shallow root system makes hairy bittercress easy to control by hand weeding. Hairy ...

Many people could differentiate a sparrow from a pigeon, hawk or duck. But to a biologist, the term "sparrow" wouldn't be descriptive enough — a biologist would want to know what species of sparrow ...

I grew up with a mother who embodied the restlessness of the plant world – always dividing clumps of successful plantings, dealing with sudden uprisings of unplanned seedlings, and generally moving ...

Some of the best known species on Earth may not be what they seem. Credit...Steve Holroyd/Alamy Supported by By Carl Zimmer Naturalists have been trying for centuries to catalog all of the species on ...

Scientists described a slew of new species this past year, including an electric blue tarantula, two pygmy squid, a silent frog, and some thumb-sized chameleons. Experts estimate less than 20% of ...

While growing up in California in the 1980s, Winifred Frick never saw a condor in the wild. The population of North America’s largest bird, Gymnogyps californianus, had dwindled to nearly zero by 1987 ...

Two Grey wolf share a tender moment together in Yellowstone National Park. Contributor Climate change, it turns out, is not the first time humanity has re‑made the Earth. Or resorted to a Hail Mary to ...

Nearly two dozen species are being taken off the endangered species list because they are extinct, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday. Most of the species were listed under the Endangered ...

I just read an article that likens hairy bittercress (HB) to the “cranky old man up the street.” If you are familiar with hairy bittercress, you will most likely agree. If you are just now learning ...