Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

The African buffalo is a powerful and resilient herbivore. Known for its strong social bonds, unpredictable temperament, and ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

The Argentine black and white tegu lizard is a non-native, invasive species distributed throughout Florida through escapes or ...

It's hoped these naturally occurring seed banks could be used to restore one of the country's most iconic plant ecosystems.

Six African Penguins at the New England Aquarium in Boston have made a new home on an island designed to address the aches ...

A landmark settlement agreement has been reached in the African penguin litigation after intense negotiations between ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially re-writing the story of human evolution.

Underground seed banks in South Africa that date back over 130 years have been found to contain fynbos seeds that are alive. These seed banks are natural storage areas in the soil where certain plants ...

Fynbos is a special community of plants found only in South Africa. Some of the most famous ... nature heal by bringing back native plants and animals that have been lost from the system.

Professor Lee Berger, the project's leader and Director of the Centre for Exploration of the Deep Human Journey at Wits ...

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations.