Christening a new species is no child’s play. Thousands of animals and plant species are discovered every year. Once these new species are discovered, it is necessary to give them an ...

A truly automated process ROADIES—which stands for "Reference-free, Orthology-free, Annotation-free, Discordance-aware Estimation of Species Trees"—stands apart from existing phylogenetic ...

Scientists know of four New World crocodile species, but a new study highlights potential fifth and sixth additions to the reptilian family. The two new crocodile species are each endemic to an ...

She first joined PEOPLE in 2025 as a Night Digital News Writer. alexis chappius A species of coelacanth, a fish that dates back to before the dinosaurs, has been photographed in Indonesia for the ...

President Trump plans to overhaul the Endangered Species Act to make it easier to build in the U.S. where endangered species live, a White House official confirmed Wednesday. The president has ...

For years, the Endangered Species Act has been interpreted in a way that preserves the environments where endangered and threatened plants and animals live. A proposed regulatory change by the ...

“It upends how we've been protecting endangered species for the last 40 years,” said Noah Greenwald of the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity. The proposal is different from any ...

In the mountains of southern Iran, a new and potentially deadly species was discovered. Saman, et al (2025) Diversity In the mountains of southern Iran, a new species has been discovered — and ...

The roseate tern, one of a handful of federally endangered and protected bird species in Connecticut, has about 95% of its population in the state on the island each summer. Conservationists ...

Understanding more about threatened and endangered species, the roles they historically played in their habitats, and what it takes to protect them can lead to positive outcomes for animals and ...