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Mar. 18, 2025 — Although fungi of the genus Piloderma are common, scientists have now discovered five previously unknown species. One of these is one of the most widely distributed species in ...

Conservation Efforts Are Bringing Species Back from the Brink, Even as Overall Biodiversity Falls Mar. 18, 2025 — A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that while the natural ...

Invasive species are any plant, animal, insect or plant disease not native to a specific location that can cause harm to the environment, impact the diversity of native species, reduce wildlife ...

Invasive species are non-native species that have been introduced to an ecosystem and have established there causing ecological damage. The study of invasive species involves questions about the ...

But we also focus our efforts on those species—like tigers, rhinos, whales and marine turtles—whose protection influences and supports the survival of other species or offers the opportunity to ...

People usually think of leopards in the savannas of Africa but in the Russian Far East, a rare subspecies has adapted to life in the temperate forests that make up the northern-most part of the ...

As diplomatic tensions continue between Canada and the United States, a travel group says Islanders are rethinking their travel plans, opting for alternative vacation destinations that are either ...

We are making additions to: Van der Laan, R., W. N. Eschmeyer & R. Fricke 2014 (11 Nov.), Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa Monograph 3882 (1), 1-230. DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 Download ...

That’s a fourfold increase since the late 1970s. In November 2018, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species changed the mountain gorilla’s official status from Critically Endangered, in light of the ...