The magnificent history of Ireland’s towering trees is in the spotlight following the recent storms, writes Shane Lehane.

Apr. 1, 2025 — A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus, gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked ...

Conservation efforts are bringing species back from the brink, even as overall biodiversity falls Date: March 18, 2025 Source: University of Cambridge Summary: A major review of over 67,000 animal ...

Scientists say to save the critically endangered species we must consider hybridising it or editing its genes. Orange-bellied parrots (Neophema chrysogaster) are one of Australia's most imperilled ...

If we lived in an ordinary time—time here being understood in the long, unhurried sense of a geologic epoch—it would be nearly impossible to watch a species vanish. Such an event would occur ...

a prejudice or bias in favour of the interests of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species. Speciesism is often condemned as the same sort of bigotry as racism or ...

Watch the world's largest species of goat fight for the right to mate, teetering on the edge of perilous drops. The Tam Nam Lod Cave is home to over a quarter of a million swifts. But there are ...

Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera) is identifiable by its simple, glossy, ovate leaves, typically 2-5 inches long, which turn yellow in fall. The tree produces large, round, bumpy fruits, known as ...