A species is a distinct group of organisms and the most basic unit used to measure life on Earth. However, there’s no single definition of a species, meaning this vital concept in biology can be ...

Pimm, Stuart L. Russell, Gareth J. Gittleman, John L. and Brooks, Thomas M. 1995. The Future of Biodiversity. Science, Vol. 269, Issue. 5222, p. 347.

Oct. 10, 2024 — They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation -- which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes -- seems to hold in ...

A newly identified wasp species, Chrysonotomyia susbelli, has been discovered in Houston, Texas, marking the 18th new species identified by Rice University's Scott Egan and his research team since ...

Florida International University (FIU) scientists have finally identified a new species of hammerhead shark years after first collecting samples, but the shark's official discovery comes as its ...

Stated plainly, the vast majority of intentionally or unintentionally introduced species are not a threat to native ecosystems. Governments and conservation organizations spend an enormous amount ...

If we lived in an ordinary time—time here being understood in the long, unhurried sense of a geologic epoch—it would be nearly impossible to watch a species vanish. Such an event would occur ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of "ghost shark" that exclusively lives in the deep waters surrounding Australia and New Zealand. The Australasian narrow-nosed spookfish has a long ...

"The ongoing discovery of distinctive new species like this grumpy dwarfgoby shows how much biodiversity remains undiscovered in the Red Sea," Nunes Peinemann explains. "This is concerning given ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of ghost shark that lives in deep ocean waters near Australia and New Zealand. The Australasian Narrow-nosed Spookfish, or Harriotta avia, was found in the ...