Professor John Wiens from the University of Arizona has shed new light on the pace of new species discoveries — and how it ...

Robert May, a famed ecologist, posed a hypothetical question to the scientific community 15 years ago - if an alien spaceship landed on Earth, one of the first questions they would likely ask would be ...

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

A bizarre ecosystem discovered 3,640 meters deep in the Arctic reveals "frozen reefs" and alien-like life. Learn about this ...

New species are being discovered faster than ever before — at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.

An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

Roughly three centuries ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out to catalog and name every living organism he could find. He is now widely ...