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Mar. 18, 2025 — Although fungi of the genus Piloderma are common, scientists have now discovered five previously unknown species. One of these is one of the most widely distributed species in ...

A new finding underscores the importance of ... Social Media Can Help Track Species as Climate Changes Mar. 13, 2025 — Social media can help scientists track animal species as they relocate in ...

If we lived in an ordinary time—time here being understood in the long, unhurried sense of a geologic epoch—it would be nearly impossible to watch a species vanish. Such an event would occur ...

De-extinction — the science of resurrecting extinct species — is progressing in leaps and bounds. Here are six creatures that researchers could bring back to life.

But we also focus our efforts on those species—like tigers, rhinos, whales and marine turtles—whose protection influences and supports the survival of other species or offers the opportunity to ...

Invasive species are non-native species that have been introduced to an ecosystem and have established there causing ecological damage. The study of invasive species involves questions about the ...

Invasive alien species (IAS) are animals, plants, or other organisms that are introduced into places outside of their natural range, negatively impacting native biodiversity and in some cases ...

Despite their exalted status and relative lack of natural predators, pandas are still at risk. Severe threats from humans have left just over 1,800 pandas in the wild. The panda, with its distinctive ...

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That’s a fourfold increase since the late 1970s. In November 2018, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species changed the mountain gorilla’s official status from Critically Endangered, in light of the ...

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