“I saw a wiggle,” Ashley Palmer told 14 volunteers as they scratched through soggy stream sediments, adding that most of the organisms would be eyelash size. Since 2016, Palmer and volunteer teams ...

Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be ...

A provocative new international study published in Austral Ecology warns the massive "broadcast baiting" campaign currently ...

In the slow-moving canals and shadowy marshes of the Florida Everglades live some of the most dangerous creatures. You ...

Technology is revolutionising how we gather and assess data on nature, presenting huge benefits and no little irony ...

In the shadowy corners of the multibillion-dollar global wildlife industry, a quiet but flourishing market is often overlooked. As media and regulatory attention focuses primarily on illegal and ...

Long assumed by some to have been diluted and washed away over time, mercury contamination from 19th-century gold mining is still moving through Nevada’s Carson River, with levels in some waterfowl ...

“ Tanyka is a little like a platypus, in the sense that it was a member of the stem tetrapod lineage that remained even after newer, more modern tetrapods evolved,” Jason says. “It was a living fossil ...

Should you ever find yourself playing a trivia game on the topic of moths and butterflies, here are a few facts that might ...

A team of researchers working in China’s Hunan province has unearthed more than 50,000 fossil specimens from one small quarry, identifying 91 previously unknown species that lived approximately 512 ...

Subspecies driven to extinction by hungry whalers returns after ‘back breeding’ programme using partial descendants ...