Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be ...

The exploding cost of RAM may contribute to a rise in PC prices, eliminating the category of computers under $500.

The end-Permian extinction 252 million years ago wiped out over 80 per cent of marine species, but many ecosystems still had ...

Birdwatching is emerging as an economic sector and a form of physical and mental therapy in Colombia, the country with the highest number of species in the world ...

Earth’s vertebrate diversity may be far richer than anyone realized. A sweeping analysis of more than 300 studies suggests that for every known fish, bird, reptile, amphibian, or mammal species, there ...

Giant clams (Tridacna gigas), members of the family Tridacnidae and among the most striking inhabitants of tropical coral ...

Ancient sea organisms survived until a sudden extinction 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass extinction.

Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and terns are washing up on shores across Europe, after a string of storms affected their ability to find food ...

In a narrow strip of land along the Andes mountain range in central Chile, an Indigenous community has long celebrated the ...

As the global avian extinction crisis accelerates, the loss of large-bodied birds is destroying local biodiversity and ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.