"Endemic taxa include 127 plants, 45 vertebrates (amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals) and 45 invertebrate species (butterflies, freshwater crabs), and two endemic genera of plants and reptiles ...

Another 20 species have been listed as threatened across Australia including the Gibraltar Range waratah, a relative of the NSW floral emblem. Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said invasive ...

Our earlier genetic research, using pioneering methods to extract ancient DNA from shells, provided the extra evidence needed. We could now formally name and describe the new species of pāua from the ...

Five seabird species have been added to the UK red list of birds at most need of conservation, joining others such as the puffin. The new entries include the Arctic tern, known for its incredible ...

Aotearoa New Zealand's true ancient species are animals like Kākāpō, small wrens, bats and freshwater limpets, not recent Aussie immigrants like kiwi, moa and takahē. This is the conclusion ...

It found sponge gardens and ancient corals. Researchers have also discovered 150 previously unknown species along the mountain ridge to the Salas y Gómez Ridge to Rapa Nui, also known as Easter ...

We could now formally name and describe the new species of pāua from the Three Kings Islands/Manawatāwhi. The scientific name of the Manawatāwhi pāua, Haliotis pirimoana, was proposed by ...

An international team of researchers delved into museum collections and discovered new species of sponge-associated zoantharian, a small colonial organism similar to anemones. Dr. Javier ...

ROCHESTER — More than four years after the spread of a novel coronavirus became a global pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider COVID-19 to be an endemic disease ...

On the freezing waves of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, researchers aboard the ARSV Laurence M. Gould dropped a trawling net into the water. They were hoping to catch zooplankton, but when ...