A team of evolutionary biologists and ecologists has a new idea for how scientists should classify algae species. FSU Assistant Professor of Biological Science Sophie McCoy and her team are proposing ...

The TreeScanPL10K dataset provides over 10,000 annotated TLS point clouds, advancing precision forestry and ecological ...

Taxonomy, or the naming of species, is surprisingly complicated – and contentious. It doesn't take much scientific expertise to divide lions from tigers, or pigeons from flamingos, but details count ...

More than three miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in perpetual darkness and near-freezing temperatures, the ...

“The oceans cover 70% of the surface of our planet, and yet they are still the least explored,” says Sir David Attenborough in the opening sequence of the recent BBC documentary series Blue Planet II.

For more than a century, scientists considered banded langurs, a type of reclusive, tree-dwelling monkey, to be a single species—but new research points to three separate ones. They've been hiding in ...

Scientists have identified a new species of gentoo penguin living in one of the most remote regions on Earth, a discovery ...