You may not have noticed, but transgenic fish made a big splash last month. GloFish—a brand of transgenic zebrafish that fluoresces red under ultraviolet light—are currently on sale in ...

Some also object to research companies patenting living species like manufactured products. This zebrafish is a Glofish GMO. GloFish were first developed from zebrafish (Danio rerio), a small gold ...

A keystone in an arch's crown secures the other stones in place. Keystone species play the same role in many ecological communities by maintaining the structure and integrity of the community.

Oct. 16, 2024 — From Tasmania to Madagascar to New Guinea, islands make up just over five per cent of Earth's land yet are home to 31 per cent of the world's plant species. A new study shows ...

The Earth is currently experiencing its sixth major extinction event. One million species globally are at risk of extinction in the next few decades, including 27 percent of the world’s mammals, 41 ...

In nature, species will sometimes form unexpectedly close bonds and work to their mutual benefit. Symbiotic relationships are the close associations formed between pairs of species. They come in a ...

Florida International University (FIU) scientists have finally identified a new species of hammerhead shark years after first collecting samples, but the shark's official discovery comes as its ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of "ghost shark" that exclusively lives in the deep waters surrounding Australia and New Zealand. The Australasian narrow-nosed spookfish has a long ...

A species is a distinct group of organisms and the most basic unit used to measure life on Earth. However, there’s no single definition of a species, meaning this vital concept in biology can be ...

This is the first time this ... New 'Grumpy' Fish Species Discovered in the Red Sea Sep. 16, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a new species of fish, the 'grumpy dwarfgoby'. Found among coral ...

If we lived in an ordinary time—time here being understood in the long, unhurried sense of a geologic epoch—it would be nearly impossible to watch a species vanish. Such an event would occur ...

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