Eggs from a rare Mexican fish species believed to be extinct in the wild have successfully hatched at Bristol Zoological ...

The first comprehensive biodiversity survey of the park was published on Tuesday, revealing the rare and threatened species that live there, including the Sunda pangolin, the clouded leopard and ...

Writing in Current Biology, Parker et al. describe experiments in shell-dwelling cichlid fish (Lamprologus ocellatus) that challenge this conventional view (A. V. Parker et al. Curr. Biol.

An alien bird species has landed in large parts of northern Italy, putting local wildlife at risk. The African sacred ibis is an invasive species that is thought to have invaded after it escaped ...

The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed. Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ...

Feb. 3, 2025 — A new study has estimated it would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99 of Australia's priority species. The research highlights the urgent need ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear ... Feb. 4, 2025 — Many U.S ...

Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation. There were 42 new additions to the national list of ...

Darwin kept silent for 20 years before going public and was only half joking when he described writing his book 'On the Origin of Species' as 'like confessing a murder'. This is the story of one ...

We show that some of these inversions are used as XY sex-determination systems but are also likely limited to a subset of total lake species. Our work suggests that inversions have been under both ...

The team at Herwig Baier’s research department focused on Lamprologus ocellatus, a species of shell-dwelling cichlids found in Africa’s Lake Tanganyika. These fish exhibit highly social behavior and ...

The scarcity of prey is the most prevalent threat for the Arctic fox. Disease and genetic pollution of the species by foxes bred in captivity also threatens this species. Temperatures in the Arctic ...