A 280-million-year-old fossil that has baffled researchers for decades has been shown to be—in part—a forgery, following new examination of the remnants.

The Amazon rainforest is facing a barrage of pressures that might tip it into large-scale ecosystem collapse as soon as 2050, according to new research Wednesday warning of dire consequences for the region and the world.

For polar bears, the climate change diet is a losing proposition, a new study suggests.

Imageomics, a new field of science, has made stunning progress in the past year and is on the verge of major discoveries about life on Earth, according to one of the founders of the discipline.

Valentine's day is over but love's call lingers: the Skywalker gibbons' mating song, scientists reported this week, has revealed a previously unknown population—the largest in the world—of the endangered primate in the jungles of Myanmar.

A new genetic map of the arabica coffee plant, Coffea arabica, could help breeders develop to more climate-proof brews.

Scientists at the University of Illinois Chicago and Harvard University have developed an antibiotic that could give medicine a new weapon to fight drug-resistant bacteria and the diseases they cause.

Armed with a catalog of hundreds of thousands of DNA and RNA virus species in the world's oceans, scientists are now zeroing in on the viruses most likely to combat climate change by helping trap carbon dioxide in seawater or, using similar techniques, d

灵长类动物的社会组织比以前假设的更加灵活。根据一项新的研究，最初的灵长类动物可能是成对生活的，而只有大约15%的个体是独居的。

一项对北美哺乳动物的研究发现，随着气候变暖，保护森林覆盖对野生动物保护越来越重要。

新的研究表明，这些大型海洋哺乳动物非常挑剔，只吃自己喜欢的食物。

一项研究发现了两种新的穴居蝎子的一些令人惊讶的特征，包括形状非常奇怪的“尾尖”和一些“性感”的解剖特征。陆生生物学家对澳大利亚特有的神秘穴居蝎子属的两个新物种进行了仔细观察，结果发现它们的尾巴与其他物种有很大不同。