The Philippines, long recognized as one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots, could lose nearly a quarter of ...

Protecting large swaths of Earth's land can help stem the tide of biodiversity loss -- especially when those protected areas are in less disturbed landscapes and in countries with effective national ...

A newly discovered fossil "treasure hoard" dating back some 436 million years to the early Silurian period reveals, for the first time, the complete body shape and form of some of the first jawed ...

For all its pervasiveness and the efforts to study it, cancer is still somewhat of a mystery. Why do some animals get it at a higher rate than others? This is the question at the heart of Peto’s ...

Scientists have also long thought that the earliest leeches were bloodsuckers. All modern leeches, including species that do ...

A new study has warned that 15% to 30% of the Philippines’ land-dwelling vertebrates could vanish, with amphibians and ...