Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

The classification of one of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever discovered, the skeleton known as Little Foot, has been called into question by an international research team led from La ...

Taxonomy, or the naming of species, is surprisingly complicated – and contentious. It doesn't take much scientific expertise to divide lions from tigers, or pigeons from flamingos, but details count ...

Last year, researchers at Michigan State discovered two new truffle species. The truffles — a type of fungi found across the globe and revered as rare culinary delicacies — have since been studied by ...

The new study has found that species are being discovered at a faster rate than ever before, with scientists identifying more ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little Foot,” fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa’s ...

Researchers describe five new deep-sea squat lobster species. Combining molecular data and microCT their findings show a wider species distribution range and shallower genetic diversity, calling for a ...

A team of scientists based in Brazil recently reported that they discovered a new species of Tinamou in the mountains of the ...

Alberto González Casarrubios has a predoctoral contract financed by the Community of Madrid (PIPF-2023). The research described in this article has been supported by the International Seabed Authority ...

Laura Bertola does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...