But not in the way it usually ingratiates itself to potential adopters, who hear that the most familiar one of all, the snake ...

Kumamoto (Jiji Press) -- A fossilized cervical vertebra discovered back in 1996 in southwestern Japan was found to have been a new genus and species of pterosaur, a prehistoric flying ...

A snail named after painter Pablo Picasso is one of many species named after artists, ... Those last two levels, genus and species, also form the official name of every unique type of organism.

A photo uploaded to popular citizen science social network iNaturalist is a snapshot of the first new genus and species of plant discovered in a US national park in almost 50 years. The wooly ...

An entirely new plant species, known as a "wooly devil," has been discovered in Big Bend National Park in Texas. Why It Matters. This is the first new plant genus and species to have been ...

In the animal kingdom, reproduction is a necessary part of species survival. Learn about 12 animals that reproduce asexually and don't need a mate.

They uncovered a species of the lobster-like crustacean that is completely new to science. This species is called the dusty crayfish ( Cherax pulverulentus ) and is described in a study published ...

An extraordinary 234 new species were described by scientists in the Greater Mekong region of South-East Asia in 2023. The finds, announced in a report from conservation organisation WWF, include ...

The newly discovered bee, which Hung described as "sparkly blue" in color, is the only species in the genus Andrena that has an affinity to plants in the tomato family.

(Starfish Space Illustration) Tukwila, Wash.-based Starfish Space has won a three-year, $15 million contract from NASA for a mission aimed at doing up-close inspections of defunct satellites in orbit.

The Low Cost Attritable Aircraft Platform Sharing program exploits the biology’s “genus” and “species” concept, which will allow the use of a common base system to build large numbers of ...

Officially, a "species" is the bottom of the taxonomic ranking system that starts with domain and works its way down through kingdom, phylum, class, order, family and, finally, genus and species.