Sometimes, nature delivers a surprise that feels almost miraculous. Scientists have confirmed that two small marsupial species — the pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider — are still ...

Scientists have made an incredible discovery after digging into the driest non-polar desert on Earth. The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is so dry that NASA even used it to test out its Mars rovers ...

Born in 1809, Charles Darwin proposed the theory of natural selection and helped set the foundation for how modern scientists classify organisms, cementing hims ...

Invasive alien species don’t only drive out other native species, they also dramatically transform soils, water and ecosystems. A new assessment tool aims to pinpoint the negative environmental ...

Many of the most damaging invasions do not simply subtract species; they fundamentally remodel the environment, altering habitats, rewiring interactions, and shifting processes in ways that species ...

Scientists found worms living inside a glass sponge castle - and that's just one of 38 new species.

Scientists discover thousands of new species every year, and a surprising number of those creatures end up named after pop ...

A decades-old CIA intelligence document has gone viral and prompted a fresh debate about a potential cure for cancer.

Biochar is widely promoted as a climate friendly soil amendment that can store carbon and improve crop growth. Yet scientists have long debated whether it always benefits soil ecosystems. A new study ...

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

Production of this article included the use of AI. It was reviewed and edited by a team of content specialists. Imagine something alive today that was already ancient when woolly mammoths still roamed ...

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...