For their sustenance, flying fish feed on a variety of foods, including plankton. There are at least 40 known species of flying fish. Beyond their useful pectoral fins, all have unevenly forked ...

Well-preserved remains found in Germany in 2015 have now been identified as a new pterosaur species, solving a 200-year-old ...

A vampire hedgehog, a pygmy pipehorse and a "blob-headed" fish were among the hundreds of new species identified in 2024. The variety of species identified was quite eclectic and names for the new ...

The discovery that what was long believed to be one fly species is actually two deepens researchers’ understanding of plant-pollinator relationships in a unique habitat in southern Africa. Until ...

But the fruit fly is much more than an annoying house guest. In fact, Drosophila melanogaster has been one of the most important species for science for more than a century. Were it not for these ...

Despite dire projections from climate change models predicting the complete disappearance of the West Virginia northern flying squirrels' habitat, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed all ...

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice of intent today to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for improperly denying Endangered Species Act protection to the critically imperiled San ...