Scientists at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Australia have described two new species of fungi, Peziza austroechinospora and Peziza meridionalis with the assistance of DNA sequencing, highlighting ...

By Sonia Fernandez, UCSB After a year and a half of remote work and learning, UC Santa Barbara undergraduate students Sophia Lecuona Manos, Gabrielle Plewe, Carson Gadler and doctoral student […] ...

In a dark and unexplored cave in South Africa, one former daydreaming student found fossils that proved a new type of human being existed in the region.

While parts of the US government have pledged for years to reduce animal testing, experts say the FDA especially has been slow to respond, implement and permit the use of ...

A newly discovered species of spider in the Ecuadorean Amazon mimics a pathogen, known as a zombie fungus, to protect itself.

The Blaschka Glass Invertebrates Collection was recently moved from Corson-Mudd Hall to the Museum of the Earth. The ...

Recent technological advances facilitate the reconstruction of complete brain connectomes in small organisms and partial connectomes in mammals, involving the mapping of the network of neurons and ...

Throughout history, humans have often believed they fully understood the world around them. You could travel back 500 years, and you’d find the top minds of the day quite certain of their ...

Dr. Amy Baird, Professor of Biology at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD), and her colleagues are seeking to change the attitude of biologists toward the meaning of taxonomic categories above ...

With an estimated 1 million feral deer in Victoria causing untold damage to farms and the environment, farming and green ...

A team of researchers at the Borneo Marine Institute (IMB) of Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), led by Assoc Prof Dr Chen ...

An in-depth analysis reveals that for each identified vertebrate species, there may be two others, nearly identical in appearance but genetically distinct. Scientists have long classified ...