The classification of animal groups is essential to the development of modern biology—but it's extremely complicated. Trying to shoehorn the messy, complicated web of interrelationships that is ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

The formally feathered, flightless aquatic birds known as penguins dominate the frigid waters surrounding the subantarctic ...

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

The arboreal fungus appears on the branches of trees in the genus Prunus. In Minnesota, that means cherry and plum trees.

While the majority of animals (humans included) roam the Earth, some of nature’s most fascinating creatures spend their lives ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

The story of dragon’s blood spans folklore, botany and biochemistry. Here’s how it teaches us how trees respond to injury with blood-red resilience.

Plant taxonomy is the foundation of biodiversity science, but a global skills crisis threatens its future. Training a new generation of taxonomists is urgent and new research maps where help is most ...

Researchers at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, or MIRMI, at the Technical University of Munich have created a “Tree of Robots,” a new evaluation scheme to measure the ...

The base "color" attribute needs "color__other" to support API creation of variants having colors that are not already defined in the Shopify "color" attribute. The API metaobject create mutation does ...