Newly described aquatic insects, belonging to the genus Hydropsyche, are helping close substantial knowledge gaps regarding ...

A team of scientists have discovered and named three new "leaf-planking" praying mantis species and recorded another mantis ...

Not all pythons belong to one homogeneous group. Modern classification of snakes places the family Pythonidae under numerous genera determined by phylogenetic lineage, physical features, genetic data ...

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 ...

Scientists resurrected the genus Philozoon by using modern technologies to thoroughly characterize two of the species of algae that biologist Patrick Geddes had investigated in the mid-to-late 19th ...

SINGAPORE: Researchers from Singapore and Japan have discovered a new species of box jellyfish near Sentosa, and have advised ...

If you’ve ever walked through a zoo and heard a long, low call that was answered by another call, you might have heard two gibbons singing to each other. Gibbons are monogamous primates, and male and ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- In the late 1800s, scientists were stumped by the "yellow cells" they were observing within the tissues of certain temperate marine animals, including sea anemones, corals and ...