Deep inside the Natural History Museum Vienna, thousands of pinned insects carry the weight of scientific history. A new catalogue...

Deep in the rain forest patches of Petén, Guatemala, community members working a commercial teak plantation noticed something odd on...

In the uranium-rich deserts of northern Niger, one of the world's most politically charged landscapes has produced an unexpected cultural...

A field study on the Târnava Plateau shows Canadian goldenrod invasion has no significant effect on ant richness, abundance, or...

Deep in the sun-baked badlands of Kachchh in western India, a thin band of rock barely two metres thick has...

Deep in the floodplains of Ukraine's rivers, where the water table sits high and the ground never quite dries out,...

Two new species of extinct Elcanidae, Parelcana xena and Longioculus poinari, have been described from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, raising the...

A new Early Pliocene tortoise species from Armenia, dated between 4.16 and 3.98 million years ago, is the best-dated fossil...

A new study in Comparative Cytogenetics reports the first chromosome counts for three western North American fishfly species and confirms...

Natural history collections around the world hold more than a billion specimens, and every single one of them depends on...