Initiative has also been taken to restore five endangered animal species. The plan aims to complete this initiative before the upcoming International Day for Biological Diversity ...

A new analysis from researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History reveals that nearly half of the genus ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

These efforts yielded thousands of dried specimens and data-rich labels that are housed in herbaria around the world, including the museum's United States National Herbarium. "The data that is ...

But with no immediate answers, she and the ranger consulted herbarium records ... the first such discovery to take place within a U.S. National Park in nearly half a century, Big Bend National ...

A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has been described ...

A new plant species, dubbed the "wooly devil," has been discovered in Big Bend National Park by park staff and confirmed by ...

A volunteer spotted the tiny, fuzzy plant with maroon florets while exploring the remote northern corner of Big Bend National ...

Through a course in dendrology, the study of the taxonomy of woody plants in the absence of flowers or fruits, two experts in ...

A new fuzzy plant species called the "Wooly Devil" has been discovered amongst the arid landscapes of Big Bend National Park in Texas.