RNAi -- functions specifically to silence, or deactivate, genes. Among other applications, it promises to be groundbreaking ...

An army of experts and citizen scientists devoted to documenting and protecting the country’s native bees is telling us a lot ...

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

While modern trees like maples and ashes have switched to wind pollination — releasing clouds of pollen to be scattered at ...

Researchers in Portugal recently stumbled across a fossil containing the mummified remains of hundreds of bees, perfectly ...

More specific carbon-dating techniques for Paleolithic bones could help researchers develop an updated timeline of how Neanderthals, who experts believe went extinct roughly 40,000 years ago ...

The desert rat-kangaroo — a small marsupial species — was declared extinct in 1994. But, scientists believe it could be alive and “evading detection,” according to a new study. Photo from Flinders ...

The desert rat-kangaroo — a small marsupial species — was declared extinct in 1994. But, scientists believe it could be alive and “evading detection,” according to a new study. Photo from ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non ...

The night parrot, presumed extinct, has been sighted in Australia after decades. Conservationists are ecstatic as Indigenous rangers uncover new data about the bird’s habits, fostering hopes for ...

"In other European countries that had the Apis mellifera melifera, it's gone extinct and they're looking at us with envy." Proposed legislation would ban imports of non-native bees Proposed ...