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

Earth is home to an astonishing diversity of species that provide food, medicine and other infrastructure necessary for the existence of humankind. Given intense competition between species for ...

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

When species interact with each other, they do not evolve separately, but do so together. This process is called coevolution. Natural selection favors predators that are better at capturing prey, and ...

Over the years, we’ve turned research, anecdotes and everyday experiences into a whole constellation of stories about the way we impact our world. Still, some voices may be missing from the ...

Some of the best known species on Earth may not be what they seem. Credit...Steve Holroyd/Alamy Supported by By Carl Zimmer Naturalists have been trying for centuries to catalog all of the species on ...

The animal kingdom is a wonderful and wacky place filled with creatures with all sorts of unique abilities, ranging from walking on water, holding their breath miles beneath the ocean and even living ...

Imagine looking up at a sky so full of birds, they block out light from the sun. Passenger pigeons (Ectopistes migratorius) used to fly in flocks of hundreds of millions, maybe even billions, of birds ...

People sometimes introduce animals and plants into new areas. When these harm their new environment, we call them invasive species. In some places, invasive species have changed the natural world ...

Ludwigia which is currently unmanageable in France, is an aquatic plant native to South America. It can spread rapidly and the very dense mats which it forms can present a threat to many aquatic ...