Great Vocab Didn't Save The Thesaurus Fr...  ...ld take many millions of years to recover and our species itself would likely disappear early on," he...  ...appear early on," he added. Species extinction over the past centuries...  ...l. Since 1900, there are more than 400 vertebrate *strong class="mat...

The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ...simple. By and large, you can’t breed one species of animal with another. You can’t just shov...  ...ff genetically from other animals to create a new species (“quantum speciation,” which has noth...  ...h quarks and leptons). Onc...

Paul Gervais was a renowned French paleontologist...  ...de 250 illustrations of observed but little-known species

Look at this bird. You may recognize it as an Amer...  ...ientists sometimes try to be funny when they name species , but none of these fit into that category. There...  ...re are perfectly good explanations for the 11 odd species

Some living things can be held in a suspended anim...  ...ey tell us about how changing environments change species in an article by Carl Zimmer at the New York Time...

[http://youtu.be/OcPqk-O-fD4] (YouTube link)Tom Sc...  ...often treat humans as a boring, default everyman species or even the weakest and dumbest.I want to see a s...  ...considered one of the more hideous and terrifying species

A few months ago, we showed you this strange structure found and photographed by graduate student Troy Alexander in the Peruvian Amazon. As far as we knew, no one had ever seen anything like it before. Was it built by an...

We get excited about new species discovered every year, but at the same time, ther...  ...hey didn't have a chance.And there are nine other species now on the extinct list that you can read about a...

Some animals seem to have gotten the short end of the stick from evolution. In a humorous post at Scientific American, some of these animals let their grievances be made known. A letter from an Emperor penguin starts out...

For hundreds of thousands of years, several species of humans existed at the same time: the Neanderth...  ...ir separate evolutionary histories. The different species of early humans all arose from Africa, but left t...  ...er parts of the world at different times.When one species...