Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado—the world's largest and most floristically diverse savanna—account for nearly half of all its trees. This phenomenon of ...

More information: Jose Avila-Cervantes et al, Novel island species elucidate a species complex of Neotropical crocodiles, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2025.108341 ...

A fully automated tool for species tree inference Date: May 5, 2025 Source: University of California - San Diego Summary: Engineers are making it easier for researchers from a broad range of ...

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 ...

A new article has named three new species of fish from that time period, including a salmonid, dubbed Sivulliusalmo alaskensis. The Arctic landscape during the Cretaceous Period may have been ...

Colossal brands itself “the de-extinction company” and has announced plans to bring back woolly mammoths and dodos and Tasmanian tigers, some of the biggest stars in the species extermination ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing a change to the Endangered Species Act that environmental groups say will kneecap habitat protection and lead to extinction of vulnerable ...

Three Democratic U.S. senators are asking the Trump administration to explain how it analyzed a proposed rule to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species and whether ...

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 ...

Trump officials have proposed changing a decades-old interpretation of a key word in the Endangered Species Act, which would make it much easier to log, build or drill for oil. By Lisa Friedman ...

You can follow her on X or Instagram at @melissafleura. The "totally unexpected" discovery of two new crocodile species off Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula is forcing scientists to reconsider long ...