We never got the chance to even discuss it. The reaction was swift and brutal, and in 1990 a law was passed to prohibit ...

Shares of British animal genetics firm Genus shot up nearly 29% on Thursday, after it reported a 38% rise in annual adjusted pretax profit and signed a revised agreement to speed up the formation its ...

A new wasp species, Heinrichiellus natgeo, was discovered in a remote village in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh during ...

The animals that live on the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's sprawling 32,000 acres in Northern Virginia are connected by one thing: the threat of extinction. Tucked away in the foothills ...

A Tennessee hiker died after being bitten by a timber rattlesnake. North Carolina has three types of rattlesnakes, including the timber rattlesnake. Copperhead bites are the most common type of ...

Next to a car park, near the centre of an Australian capital city, researchers discovered a tiny animal hiding underground just outside their laboratory. Nothing similar to this rare trapdoor spider ...

Catfish, walleyes, and striped bass are just a few fish with known reputations for nighttime feeding. In fact, at certain times of year, your best chance at hooking into a trophy-caliber specimen is ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Iresine is a neotropical genus of the Amaranthaceae with most of the species diversity in Mexico and Mesoamerica. It has suffered a complex ...

A newly named relative of Iguanodon had a distinctive sail running along its back. While the exact purpose of these structures is debated, the exaggerated backbones of Istiorachis macarthurae could ...

A new species of dinosaur that had an "eye-catching sail" along its back has been named after sailor Dame Ellen MacArthur. The dinosaur, unearthed on the Isle of Wight, has been given the name ...

Hardwoods, known as broadleafs, are trees classed as angiosperms with ovules enclosed for fruit protection. When appropriately watered on good fertile sites or fed in the landscape with a unique tree ...