Nature in the Neighborhood The first image that may come to mind when someone mentions biodiversity is a tropical rainforest ...

Those with garden ponds will probably have two or three amphibians - up to three of our native newt species (great crested, ...

Species are vanishing faster than ever, and many are disappearing before scientists even know they exist. Now, an ...

Mason Lee, senior project coordinator for the Biodiversity Institute, shows local K-6 students a Western hognose snake in the UW Biodiversity Center. The students helped create and build naturalistic ...

The researchers who discovered the creatures in a multi-year survey of Cambodian caves are still working to name and identify ...

A biological process long thought to protect biodiversity and help species coexist may actually threaten diversity when ...

By Shanna Hanbury Scientists have discovered at least 11 new species in the caves and rocky outcroppings of northern Cambodia ...

In a remarkable deep-sea breakthrough, researchers have discovered 24 new species of amphipods in the Pacific’s ...

Taxonomic endemism and phylogenetic endemism are both important measures of biodiversity. The former describes the number of ...

A scientific expedition in the Coral Sea has identified more than 110 previously unknown species, a number that could double as further analysis continues.

A groundbreaking deep-sea expedition has uncovered more than 110 marine species previously unknown to scientists, ...

A new species of snake, Hebius vogeli, has been discovered along the Vietnam-China border. This taxonomic breakthrough stems from a comprehensive reassessment of the Hebius optatus species complex, ...