"Many of their species occur nowhere else on Earth." ...

The extreme heat and humidity broiling swathes of the United States as it hosts World Cup matches and prepares to celebrate the Fourth of July would have been "virtually impossible" without climate ...

New research has begun to fully lift the lid on the global online trade in land crabs, leading scientists to call for closer monitoring and regulation ...

In April 1965, three prominent Italian scientists called a press conference: Adriano Buzzati Traverso, geneticist and ...

Summary: A new study has completely revived and expanded this lost chapter of human evolution. Leveraging modern molecular genetic dating and advanced phylogenetic statistical modeling, researchers ...

Superworms, a mealworm-like form of beetle larva commonly used as pet food, are efficient cleaners of skeletons, according to a study published in PLOS One by Fatemeh Rastekar of Ferdowsi University ...

A new analysis supports the previously overlooked "brain lag" hypothesis—the idea that, in some primate lineages, the evolution of larger body size preceded the evolution of larger brain size—while ...

You could never have a short conversation with Desmond Morris, one of the last surviving Surrealists, who has died at the age ...

How many insects and spiders live in one square metre of meadow? What impact do humans have on this biodiversity in mown meadows, lawns and roadside verges? A new online tool answers these questions: ...

The number of plant species in many ecosystems in Europe has grown rather than shrunk over the last 100 years. However, this is not necessarily cause for celebration as this local increase is ...

She won a University of Liverpool Alumni Award in 2025 for her outstanding achievements within our global alumni community.