#Species

Author: Alexandru Micu / Source: ZME Science A newly-discovered ancient species is forcing scientists to rethink what exactly counts as a crab. An international team led by paleontologists from the Yale University announced the discovery of a treasure trove of hundreds of well-preserved crab

Author: Sarah Zielinski / Source: Science News for Students This is the eighth in a 10-part series about the ongoing global impacts of climate change. These stories will look at the current effects of a changing planet, what the emerging science suggests is behind those changes and what we all

Author: Erik Stokstad / Source: Science | AAAS The infectious disease that has devastated the most biodiversity is a fungal killer of amphibians, researchers report today in Science. Around the world, 90 species are thought to have gone extinct because of the fungus. And at least another 491

Author: Jeremy Rehm / Source: Science News A tiny new frog species discovered in tropical forests of southwest India has been one of a kind for millions of years. Palaniswamy Vijayakumar and his colleagues first spotted the new species one night in 2010 while surveying frogs and reptiles roughly

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings A century before Peter Rabbit creator Beatrix Potter revolutionized mycology with her groundbreaking studies and illustrations of mushrooms, which she was banned from presenting at London’s Linnaean Society on account of her gender, another