Artificial selection has led to the skulls of pugs and Persian cats evolving to be more similar to each other than to the ...

Through intensive breeding, humans have pushed breeds such as pug dogs and Persian cats to evolve with very similar skulls and "smushed" faces, so ...

In this study, the team similarly found that cats are more diverse as a species than the entire family of Felidae, which has ...

(Wilder Institute) Zachary MacDonald, co-first author alongside Julian Dupuis of a new study published in the biodiversity research journal ZooKeys, said the new species is an exciting discovery ...

Deemed the northern snakehead fish (Channa argus) because of its unforgettable head that resembles a snake and its python-like coloration and pattern, MDC Invasive Species Ecologist Angela ...

“Our team has discovered a new fossil ant species representing the earliest undisputable geological record of ants,” Anderson Lepeco, a study co-author and paleontologist from the Museu de ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Centre for Peninsular Aquatic Genetic Resources, Kochi, of the National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources claimed to have discovered two new species of freshwater fish from the ...

In a landmark shift, a new study has found that climate change is now the most pervasive human-caused threat to imperiled species in the United States, surpassing other long-standing hazards like ...

A new species of carnivorous caterpillar calls a counterintuitive place home: a spider’s lair. The species, dubbed the “bone collector” by the University of Hawaii scientists who discovered ...