Mosasaur evolution represents one of the most striking examples of evolutionary innovation among marine reptiles. Emerging in the mid-Cretaceous, these marine squamates rapidly diversified to occupy a ...

image: Title page of the "Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten", published in September 1884, as the first volume of a periodical journal from the Natural History Museum in Hamburg ...

Phylogenetics and conservation biology : drawing a path into the diversity of life / Roseli Pellens and Philippe Grandcolas -- Questions. The value of phylogenetic diversity / Christopher Lean and ...

Professor Jason Bond of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, described as “a powerhouse in the world of systematics and arachnology,” received the 2025 Systematics, Evolution, and ...

Journal of Crustacean Biology, Vol. 35, No. 3, Special Issue on Large Branchiopoda (May 2015), pp. 366-378 (13 pages) Multispecies spinicaudatan assemblages, where several species co-occur ...

When two animals look shockingly similar to one another, how do scientists tell them apart? The short answer is that researchers need to take a look inside. Cryptic species are animals that may appear ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

A group of scientists led by researchers of Khamai Foundation discovered five dazzling new species of eyelash vipers in the jungles and cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador. This groundbreaking ...

During a recent field trip through southern Australia, a group of researchers collected a number of “unusual” orb-weaving spiders. The tiny critters’ long, cylindrical abdomen resembled other species’ ...

Kawhi Leonard, a forward for the LA Clippers, now shares a name with a new species of arachnid found in the mountains of South Korea, a new study says. Bill Streicher USA TODAY NETWORK Already ...