Those bizarre sea creatures that light up like carnival rides are actually ctenophores, which have an ancient brainlike ...

The archaeal domain is currently divided into two major phyla, the Euryarchaeota and the Crenarchaeota, based on the RNA component of the small ribosomal subunit (SSU rRNA). During the past few years, ...

Spatial and temporal biodiversity patterns, recorded by citizen scientists in the city during 2016-2025, were studied at a ...

It seemed odd as other samples from the same species but different sampling site have more diversity. Checking in detail taxonomic assignment, I found that 85% was assigned to kingdom and only 29% to ...

The arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) symbiosis is formed by a monophyletic group of fungi from the phylum Glomeromycota and the roots of 70–90% of land plant species. AM fungi are considered to be 'living ...

Quick Take Flatworms are invasive species in many countries including Europe. Because they can reproduce asexually and are ...

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The classification of organisms is an important system for understanding how they are all related. Based on the Linnaeus method, organisms are arranged and grouped based on shared characteristics.

Scientists have made an incredible discovery after digging into the driest non-polar desert on Earth. The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is so dry that NASA even used it to test out its Mars rovers ...

You may know the Insect Asylum as a quirky storefront in Logan Square where you can explore a whole underrecognized phylum and boop a possum snout all in the same day, but its coolness goes even ...

A team of researchers sampling soil beneath a millennia-old conifer in southern Chile found that a single ancient tree can ...