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Nine years ago, a team of Yale ecologists mapped out the world’s life, a project that showed biodiversity patterns…

Every once in a while, Darwinian natural selection stumbles upon the same solution more than once, in a process…

Scientists think they’ve helped settle a debate over one of the most endangered (and cutest) animals around: the red…

While SCUBA diving off the coast of Zanzibar, marine biologist Luiz Rocha saw a fish he had never seen before. He…

On Thursday, the National Wildlife Federation, the American Fisheries Society, and The Wildlife Society released a…

The Western Governors’ Association published its first-ever list of the 50 worst invasive species inhabiting that…

You lose some, and you find some. That’s pretty much the name of the game when it comes to biodiversity, although…

No Man’s Sky was arguably the most anticipated game of 2016 after it was announced at E3 2014. Our friends at Kotaku…

When I was 11, my dad let me watch an R-rated movie. It had been a few years since Alien 3, and he was still riding…

The holidays are almost upon us, which means one thing: lots of weird superstitions involving sprigs of vegetation…

Our oceans hide so many breathtakingly beautiful species that don’t look like they’re from our planet that I…

We’ve found Kermit the Frog in real life and it’s a species of glassfrog just recently discovered called…

Marine biologists from the University of Copenhagen have discovered two new species that "defy all existing…

This weekend, we'll witness the evolution of Caesar, the ape revolutionary played by Andy Serkis in Dawn of the…

Have you ever wondered how many heartbeats an average person has in their lifetime? What about for cats or dogs or…

Monsters are horrifying, revolting... and often alluring. It makes sense that so many monsters would be hawt, since…

This skull has a weird mix of ancient and modern traits. It was discovered in a cave in southwest China and dates to…

The whitefish of Europe's Alpine lakes were once a single species, but after the Ice Age they split into separate…

Check out the NSFW trailer for Tokyo Species, a Japanese version of the US franchise about (let's face it) alien…