Traditional methods like fish nets, underwater cameras were unable to scour unexplored areas, a gap that the recent study, led by Loïc Sanchez, tried to fill. The study used traces of genetic material ...

If current extinction trends continue, global shark populations will lose much of their variety, thereby threatening ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Earth's vast oceanic biodiversity remains largely unexplored, with only a fraction of an estimated two million total living marine species formally named and described. A significant challenge is the ...

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under pressure from deforestation and agricultural expansion, ...

Version of Record: This is the final version of the article. This manuscript by Tao et al. reports on an effort to better specify the underlying interactions driving the effects of biodiversity on ...

Niche ranked the best K-12 schools and districts in Tennessee for 2026. The popular rankings platform uses federal data and parent and student reviews to formulate its annual list. Niche just released ...

Abstract: The presence of species provides key insights into the ecological properties of a location such as land cover, climatic conditions or even soil properties. We propose a method to predict ...

The National Park Service defines an invasive species as something that can cause harm to the environment or economy, along with human, plant or animal health. Additionally, all invasive species are ...

It wasn't just a unique color variation—it was something far more unusual. The bird, confirmed through genetic testing, was a wild hybrid between a green jay and a blue jay, the first ever documented ...