“A 62-million-year-old skeleton of this quality and completeness offers novel insights into mixodectids, including a much clearer picture of their evolutionary relationships,” study co-author and Yale ...

The world’s trees are in critical danger, with a staggering number of tree species teetering on the brink of extinction, according to a new global analysis released Monday. The decade-long project ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. This article is available in Spanish. Seeds of the ceiba barrigona, or big-bellied ceiba tree, are not easy to find. The rare giant, known scientifically as ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered fossil evidence of an endangered, living tropical tree species. The unprecedented find was made in Brunei, a country on the large island of Borneo, and ...

A type of tropical cactus native to the Florida Keys has become the first species in U.S. history to become extinct due to rising sea levels, researchers said. A massive stand of Key Largo tree cactus ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

Back in 1765, John Bartram and son William were enjoying a plant-finding trip to Georgia, when they spotted, nestled along the Altahama River, a glossy, narrow-leafed tree, with large, fragrant, cream ...