Scientists have wondered if the many captive tigers in the United States could one day help restore the species in the wild.

A beautiful new species of clearwing moth that is native to Guyana has been described after it was discovered 7,000 ...

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A close look at the uses recorded for Aloe and related genera has shown that, although many species are used for home remedies, their value is greatest in veterinary medicine (Grace et al., 2009). The ...

LSU AgCenter mycologist Vinson P. Doyle and LSU Department of Biological Sciences professor Brant C. Faircloth lent their ...

The Canberra Liberals campaign is again in trouble with the revelation in The Guardian of views from shadow attorney-general ...

The team also thinks the so-called Hobbits may have have descended from another extinct human species known as Homo erectus – often thought of as a direct ancestor of modern humans. Professor Adam ...

Ants learned to work with fungi back in a world where only fungi could thrive.

According to a new study, colonies of ants began farming fungi when an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago. This asteroid impact caused a global mass extinction but also created ideal ...

A new study has rewritten the conventionally understood evolutionary history of certain proteins critical for electrical signaling in ... these ion channels were present before the origin of the ...

When humans began farming crops thousands of years ago, agriculture had already been around for millions of years. In fact, ...