New species are being discovered faster than ever before — at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.

When a species comes off the Endangered Species Act list, is that the end of the story? No. While a win is a win, it’s never the end; responsibility for these species often shifts to states, Tribes, ...

Ludwigia which is currently unmanageable in France, is an aquatic plant native to South America. It can spread rapidly and the very dense mats which it forms can present a threat to many aquatic ...

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

How do new species form? Like most areas of Evolutionary Biology, research related to the formation of new species - 'speciation ' - is rich in historical and current debate. Here, we review both ...

When species interact with each other, they do not evolve separately, but do so together. This process is called coevolution. Natural selection favors predators that are better at capturing prey, and ...

No need for niches? Neutral theory explains biodiversity when species are identical. Niche differences, or the unique ways that each species “makes its living” in nature, are the classical explanation ...

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Quick Take Conservation failures occur when the whole picture isn’t addressed and threats persist as populations decline.

The Coleopterists Bulletin, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Jun., 1979), pp. 151-166 (16 pages) The methods pioneered by Steyskal and White for using trend curves of rates of species descriptions to estimate the ...

Bacterial species, and even specific strains can be differentiated using a number of molecular techniques such as PCR, quantitative PCR, genome sequencing and mass spectrometry. But even without ...