Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...
When tourists venture into nature, their thoughts are often focused on the animals they'll get to see. But animals may also ...
A bald eagle was ultimately euthanized in Montgomery County after a man shot the bird, thinking it was a hawk, according to ...
A species of grasshopper native to Appalachia, believed to be extinct, was spotted last year in Augusta County. It’s among several rare and never before seen plants and animals that were discovered in ...
In this one, the researchers discovered that coffee drinking correlated with an increase in several bacterial species, but ...
The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...
Today, there are 11 dawn redwoods on the Michigan Big Tree Register, a program of the Michigan Botanical Society. The ...
New research shows that a fossilized plant from the Green River Formation is even stranger than scientists originally thought ...
A baby rhesus macaque was rescued from a smuggling operation at a Turkish bus terminal and transferred to a wildlife ...
A first-time mom is getting real about motherhood in a viral TikTok video. In the clip, Talijan, a mom of a toddler-aged son, ...
A dawn redwood planted in 1954 stands about 86 feet tall and 3.9 feet in diameter at Michigan State University's Beal ...
The new species, named Salmoneus manningi, is “overall whitish” with “ivory white” asymmetrical claws, researchers described.