WASHINGTON — Health experts have hammered home that processed foods lead to weight gain. But what if that’s not entirely true? Researchers from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine have ...

More than 40% of extant large freshwater animals (megafauna), including carp, salmonids, crocodilians, turtles, beavers, and ...

Brazil is establishing itself as a hub for biological agricultural formulations. Eduardo Hallak, Rafaella Oliveira, and Gislaine Zulli of Licks Attorneys analyse a fast-developing market and a decade ...

Scientists announced on March 5, 2026, that they have identified an entirely new genus of mammal called Tous, a group of ...

Scientists may have been dramatically undercounting the number of vertebrate species on Earth. A large analysis of more than 300 studies suggests that for every recognized species of fish, bird, ...

Are mushrooms vegetarian or non-vegetarian? The question often comes up because mushrooms are fungi, not plants. Here’s the science behind mushrooms and why they are usually considered vegetarian food ...

A University of Arizona study finds scientists are discovering 16,000 new species annually — and DNA tools may reveal ...

For nearly two centuries, a small brown frog living in Southeast Asian rainforests was considered a single, well-understood ...

The FDA has indexed Faunamor, an antiparasitic and antimicrobial treatment for white spot disease (Ichthyophthirius multifiliis) in ornamental finfish, making the drug legally available in the United ...

Over 40 percent of extant large freshwater animals (megafauna), including carp, salmonids, crocodilians, turtles, beavers, and hippopotamuses, have ...

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 ...