A research team from the Natural History Museum of Denmark has published a compelling new study in insect taxonomy in the ...

More than 80 translucent crustaceans were found swimming in shallow pools inside a limestone cave in Australia’s Northern ...

Beetles constitute almost 25% of all known animal species – scientists just discovered two more.

Carl Linnaeus was probably not the first scientist to realize the inherent connectedness of life on this planet. But he articulated and codified it. In the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae, ...

A species is a group of living organisms that are all broadly similar and can, at least in principle, breed with one another. This seems straightforward enough, but the word “species” is actually ...