Darren Curnoe receives funding from the Australian Research Council. How many kinds of plants and animals are there in the world? Where do humans fit within the vast fabric of life? Indeed, how did ...

A koala bear isn’t actually a bear, it’s a marsupial. Whales aren’t fish, they’re mammals. Tomatoes aren’t vegetables, they’re fruit. Almost nothing is actually a nut. Peanuts, brazil nuts, cashews, ...

Thank you for publishing Malcolm G. Scully’s “Are You a Lumper or a Splitter?” (August 16, The Review). The issues are by no means limited to birds. ... A great many of my colleagues around the very ...

There’s plenty of evidence that ancient hominin species crossed paths on many occasions – but it’s never been quite as literal as a new discovery in Kenya. Paleontologists have discovered the first ...

Some scientists looking to preserve vulnerable species have turned to a controversial technique: synthetic biology. This ...

Proponents of the use of synthetic biology say it could bring some species back from the brink of extinction and help fight ...

Now, critical habitat can include areas where a protected species doesn’t live but could find hospitable. The Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today rescinded a Trump-era definition of ...

How do new species form? Like most areas of Evolutionary Biology, research related to the formation of new species - 'speciation ' - is rich in historical and current debate. Here, we review both ...