A type of zooplankton, Daphnia pulex (a.k.a. the water flea) is a microscopic crustacean whose unique reproduction habits ...

A species of single-celled organisms called foraminifera (forams) is increasing in warm, alkaline waters of the eastern Mediterranean, building beaches with their calcium carbonate skeletons, ...

Freshwater ecosystems in Canada, and around the world, are more fragile than they look and vulnerable to invasive species.

In a horrific discovery that seems straight out of the science-fiction movie "Alien," researchers have found a new species of ...

Find out the different ways scientists have of describing what species are, how they form and how many there are on Earth.

Filipino scientists discovered in their recent studies that the two subspecies of domesticated water buffaloes in the ...

“Too much of the world, it seems, has come under human influence during a time when we’re not very good at working out how to ...

With lifespans stretching far beyond human comprehension, creatures like the hydra, Greenland shark and Aldabra tortoise ...

A new tarantula species has been found in southeastern Arizona by two researchers who have identified more of the giant ...

Australia has added 750 new species of plants, animals, fungi and other organisms to its official list of species living on ...

Filipino scientists discovered in their recent studies that the two subspecies of domesticated water buffaloes in the ...

For now, the human genome-encoded “5D memory crystal” is stored in the Memory of Mankind archive, a time capsule project ...