Dr. Amy Baird, Professor of Biology at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD), and her colleagues are seeking to change the ...

Researchers have formally described a new mining bee species found in Oklahoma and Texas that appears to gather pollen from ...

Four tarantulas discovered in Arabia and Africa form a new genus, Satyrex, distinguished by males with unusually long palps ...

Botanists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) named the new species, Clusia nanophylla, because of the tiny size of the leaves, the smallest within the genus. This species has only ...

Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India have discovered a new cockroach species, Neoloboptera peninsularis, in Maharashtra's Pune. This marks the first use of DNA technology in India for ...

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 ...

In 2000, a group of STRI botanists collected samples of all the plants from the genus Clusia they could find in Panama to ...

A newly identified species of Australian spider has been named Venomius tomhardyi, after scientists spotted markings on the arachnid’s body reminiscent of Tom Hardy’s on-screen alien symbiote partner ...

Kristofer M. Helgen is affiliated with the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii. Erik Meijaard and Tim Flannery do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

Prior to this finding, only two species within the genus Neoloboptera had been documented in India, according to the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI).