Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people picture biodiversity, they often ...

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...

Until recently, this lineage was thought to exist only in eastern Australia. But on the huge, biologically diverse island of New Guinea, there was no sign of its existence. Scientists presumed it had ...

Ahead of International Women's Day on 8 March 2026, we meet the scientists asking fundamental questions about our changing ...

Throughout the Amazon Rainforest, forest fragmentation represents an escalating and existential threat to the preservation of ...

These moves, by both institutions and citizens, are part of a relatively recent global reckoning with the dark side of the ...

How scientists (and the rest of us) are finding 16,000 new species a month.

Discover the latest news, features and articles about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ...

My list of medically related anniversaries for 2026 includes William Withering’s Botany, The Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain, which was published 250 ...

The range of lifestyles, forms and patterns that characterize life are staggering in their variety, which rivets the eye and captures the imagination. In this article, I will look briefly at ways that ...