As the holiday draws near, garden centers and grocery stores fill up with brightly blooming plants called Christmas cactus. But many of these colorful plants are actually a close cousin, the ...

Airborne DNA from decades-old filters shows mosses moving their life cycles earlier as warming disrupts northern seasons.

A team of paleontologists identified a new species of extinct shark from Morocco’s phosphate mines. It is called Pseudocorax ...

Holiday cacti are a popular way to add living décor to your home for the festive season. The cultivar you choose depends on ...

If you saw a brownish colored spider with dark markings crawling through the grass toward you, could you tell if it was a ...

Scientists continue to discover animals that seem almost too strange to be real. Even with shrinking habitats and climate ...

Scientists discovered a new wolf snake on Great Nicobar and confirmed it through DNA and body traits. The species needs ...

A tiny bee with a pair of striking horn-like projections on its head has been identified in the remote Goldfields of Western ...

Indonesia’s biodiversity gained renewed global attention following the discovery of a blooming Rafflesia hasseltii in ...

Like verdant waves breaking a sea of cottony mist rolling down the mountainside, the evergreen bushes anchored to sloping foothills of the Himalayas in the district of Darjeeling, India, are repute | ...

Fossils newly discovered in Ethiopia indicate that previously unidentified foot bones belong to the ancient human relative ...

Cancer is a common disease among mammals, but some species, such as the naked mole rat and elephants, have evolved resistance ...