Scientists are digitising the Fungarium at Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew – one of the world’s biggest collections of fungal diversity.

Other species include Stereum hirsutum ... the world already under pressure from climate change. The mouldy fungi Penicillium rubens, which Scottish physician Alexander Fleming discovered produced ...

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For ages, domestication has been portrayed as a uniquely human accomplishment, where species become domestic only through our deliberate control. This belief is supported by the fact that human ...

But that's exactly what the Trump administration is proposing to do by changing how one word in the Endangered Species Act is interpreted: harm. For 50 years, the U.S. government has interpreted ...

Languages: English and Italian. A new species of poison dart frog has been discovered in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, where dense rainforests host some of the most diverse and complex ...

Currently, the Endangered Species Act prohibits certain actions that “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect” threatened and endangered organisms. Until now, “harm” ...

"Normal flora" include Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Staphylococcus aureus, and anaerobes such as Bacteroides species, anaerobic gram-positive cocci, and Fusobacterium species.

revealing significantly greater variation in carbon storage among species and regions than previously understood. "Seagrass meadows are not just important for marine biodiversity, they are a ...

Scientists have discovered 866 new marine species, including a guitar shark, a deep-sea mollusk with cancer treatment potential, and the first octocoral found in the Maldives, Oceanographic Magazine ...