Scientists have discovered a new species of wasp that lays eggs in living flies so the babies burst out of their bellies ...

A newly identified wasp species, Chrysonotomyia susbelli, has been discovered in Houston, Texas, marking the 18th new species ...

In a temperate montane forest in southern Québec, all is quiet. But if you dig a little deeper, you'll see the landscape has ...

If you find some butterflies that seem different from those species that are already known (Figure 1), then you are faced with two questions. The first question is "what are species?", or to put ...

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A quarantine has been issued "to help businesses and homeowners recognize the insect, learn how to control it, and keep it ...

An aggressive species of invasive seagrass that has been traversing for more than a century has been detected in the U.S. for ...

There’s no exact figure for how many species live on Earth. As of 2024, more than 2.1 million species have been scientifically described and named, but this is likely to be nowhere near the true ...

The first comprehensive overview of trade in Australian reptiles and frogs worldwide shows more species should be listed for ...

which preys upon the other species as a top predator (Figure 1). Paine (1966) had observed that the diversity of organisms in rocky intertidal ecosystems declined as the number of predators in ...

Natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions elevate the extinction risk for mammals, ...

Conservation efforts directed towards just 0.7% of the world's land mass could help protect one third of the world's threatened and unique tetrapod (four-limbed vertebrate) species.