10 “Living Fossils” That Have Survived Mass Extinctions And Have Barely Changed in Millions of Years
Most creatures on Earth evolve constantly but these have hardly changed after millions of years.
Tag: species
We only have one last chance to save the tigers
"A tiger is a large-hearted gentleman with boundless courage and when he is exterminated – as exterminated he will be ...
This microorganism used for biofuel production is actually three species
The differences between the species are huge.
Leading botanists vote to rename hundreds of plant species with racist names
Many have welcomed the decision but radical change is always challenging.
Scientists find smallest-ever fanged frog species in Southeast Asia
It weighs about the same as a dime
Humans, not climate, drove large mammal populations to decline 50,000 years ago
Study looks into the DNA of almost 140 species of large mammals
Only a few tiger subspecies remain in the wild — here they are
Learn more about the different types of tiger subspecies. All of them are sadly endangered.
The best coffee beans: what type of coffee comes from what beans
There are over 120 known species of coffee.
Tiny clam species has been found alive and well, despite our presuming it went extinct 40 millennia ago
That's a pretty long time to not notice a clam.
So this one wasp species turned out to be 16 species
Modern biology is just weird sometimes.
Extinct Australian rodent is re-discovered, alive, after 150 years
Always good news to hear!
Biodiversity loss, fueled by human activity, could take millions of years to recover
This is part of our legacy.
Climate change is turning the Eastern Mediterranean into a completely new ecosystem
Sadly, it's doing it through to the death of local species.
Researchers want to create the first universally accepted list of species
This could help to address biodiversity challenges.
Theory by Darwin is proven 150 years after his death
Subspecies play a more important role in evolution than previously thought.
New tweets: ten species of bustling songbirds discovered on Indonesian islands
Some of these new species are already at risk of extinction.
‘Half-Earth’ conservation schemes would affect over a billion people
We should do more with less. Nature needs it.
Newly-discovered bee species in Fiji are already thretened
Our good work precedes us!
How many species are on Earth? Untangling a difficult question
A total of 1.3 million species have so far been identified but many more live on the planet.
Working landscapes can be used for species conservation alongside economic activities
Forest patches are opportunities to conserve wildlife
Escaped parrots are now living, roosting in 23 US states
The greenest immigrant community in the US, certainly.
Robots and AI can help us better understand deep sea species, study reports.
We're fishing for information in the deep seas.
Our ships carry invasive species, not just trade — and it is rapidly getting worse
Your package has arrived sir, it seems to be a pair of socks. The zebra mussel is on the house.
Fossil Friday: Newly-found fossil teeth solve ancient monkey mystery
Take a bite out of this story.
Nanotyrannus and the Skeptical Criteria for Species
A historical example of how classifying a species can sometimes be very confusing.
New species of crocodile found in Africa right under our snout
It's the first species of crocodile formally described in more than 80 years.
Bacteria species, too, can become extinct — and they do so quite often
The findings go against commonly-held wisdom today.
New Antarctic Dinosaurs on Display at Field Museum
It's a great way to spend an afternoon or a day off.
Climate change will become the leading cause of vertebrate-species loss by 2070
Things are heating up.
In dolphin gangs, everybody knows everyone’s name
It's just what the early humans were doing.
Two raven lineages that tied the knot yield evidence of ‘speciation reversal’
Birds of a feather... merge together.
“Ecological air conditioning” keeps species cool for now, but it won’t last
Bad news. Bad, bad news.
Common jellyfish is actually two distinct species
It took us 175 years to spot the difference.
Rarest songbird species turns out to be even rarer than thought — because it never existed
So rare there's not one of them.
A lost race of hominids left their legacy in the saliva of Sub-Saharan populations
Unlikely discoveries hide in unlikely places.
Scientists report new trove of information on Homo naledi, the newly discovered humanoid species
A primitive Homo species with some surprising skills.
Sleeping around makes it hard to speciate by mixing genes, paper shows
I don't even want to speciate.
Half of the world’s species could become extinct by 2100, biologists say at Vatican conference
Welcome to the planet's sixth major extinction -- take a seat.
Newly discovered moth species features Trump hairdo
A tiny moth species has been named Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, becoming the first species to bear the name of the US ...
Selective wipe out of large marine species sets the stage for an unprecedented sixth mass extinction
Large marine species are favorably lost which could disrupt marine ecosystems for millions of years.
The American pika is being killed off by climate change
They may be the cutest animal in the country, but we're cooking the d'awww out of them.
Grand study finds that diversity of life on Earth dropped below “safe” limits
Less species, more problems.
Poachers use scientific papers to target newly discovered species
Scientists are pushing the non-publication of geographical data of new species in order to protect them from poachers.
Caught in the act: Scientists find new species of wasp evolving
The concepts of biodiversity and evolution are generally thought of as something that occurs in thousands, maybe millions of years ...
App that could help endangered species is backed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
If you want to help protect endangered species, there's a new app that might facilitate that. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...
Golden bat discovered in Bolivia
Scientists previously misclassified a golden bat which lives in Bolivia. This new study reemphasizes the importance of museum specimens, which ...
Not all species deteriorate with age, challenging study shows
For most creatures, mortality increases sharply with age - and we typically consider this to be natural. However, other animals, ...
