The genus Solanum represents one of the most diverse and economically significant groups within the Solanaceae. Its extensive species diversity encompasses important food crops, wild relatives and ...

Ciliates represent a diverse and ecologically significant group of microbial eukaryotes whose evolutionary relationships and species diversity continue to captivate researchers worldwide. Recent ...

While genetic diversity, the unique differences that determine the color of hair and the shape of a finch’s beak, is being lost across the world amid the world’s ongoing species extinction crisis, ...

Parasites play a fundamental role in freshwater ecosystems, influencing the health and dynamics of fish populations. With the ...

In a recent study published in “Science of the Total Environment,” scientists at Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology and Zhejiang University found that the surface urban heat island effect had implications ...

A unique collection of prehistoric bowhead whale bones, dating back 11,000 years, reveals a previously untold story of the ...

An in-depth analysis reveals that for each identified vertebrate species, there may be two others, nearly identical in ...

Villages can support many pollinators. simple spaces like gardens, parks, and wild plants provide food and nesting sites for ...

Long believed to be a single, globally distributed species drifting freely across the open ocean, the bluebottle – also known as the Portuguese man o’ war – has now been revealed to be a group of at ...

WASHINGTON— A new Center for Biological Diversity analysis identifies seven endangered animal species that would be pushed to the brink of extinction by a Trump administration effort to radically ...

Why does a Caribbean angelfish sometimes resemble its Indo-Pacific cousin, even though they have never lived in the same ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration today proposed removing protections for several species that look similar to threatened and endangered wildlife, including the puma, shovelnose sturgeon and ...