The Quadrantid meteor shower is active from late December 2024 to early January 2025. It will peak on 3–4 January. Read on for tips on how to catch the best view of this stunning shower from planetary ...

The fossil record provides a massive but underused source of data on how organisms respond to large-scale changes in their environment, whether due to extinction, invasion, or environmental change. A ...

Over the last two decades, ecological monitoring of coral reefs has undergone rapid digitalization. Traditional in-situ surveys were initially substituted with photographic transects and more recently ...

Madagascar, a megadiverse country has a high concentration of endemic plant and animal species (i.e., species found nowhere else on earth) and classified as a global biodiversity hotspot. Nature in ...

The digital revolution has transformed biodiversity research, with millions of plant photos and associated metadata becoming available from diverse sources. These include scanned botanical literature, ...

The mid Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian) saw dramatic environmental change. Globally, it was a period of warming and sea level rise. In northern Europe this time period marked the change from ...

With their impressive diversity of eye morphology, gastropods are emerging as valuable models to study the evolution of vision in line with environmental constraints. However, little is known about ...

The chemistry, mineralogy and temperature of Earth’s interior are the most fundamental properties of our planet. It is these properties that control Earth’s evolution, not only of its interior but ...

Gene flow—the transfer of genetic material between populations or species—plays a critical role in shaping biodiversity by influencing speciation, adaptation, and genetic divergence. This project will ...

Natural History Museum scientists have described and named 190 new species to science in 2024 The list includes a snake named ...

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