Learn about Prototaxites, a bizarre group of prehistoric organisms that fall within an unknown lineage of extinct life.
Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...
The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...
Citizen science platforms, including iNaturalist, are leading to major new discoveries and are becoming crucial to the work ...
Plant species that was presumed to be extinct reappears after nearly six decades - Small Australian shrub with delicate pink ...
Ptilotus senarius is a small shrub with pleasing purple-pink flowers near the Gulf of Carpentaria, and hadn’t been collected since 1967.
A plant thought extinct for 58 years has been found again in Australia after a chance upload to a citizen science mobile app.
Many African conservation decisions such as funding, policy, species prioritization and nursery propagation implicitly treat ...
A small, slender shrub once written off as lost to history has reappeared in the red dirt of remote northern Australia, ...
With no sightings for half a century and a landscape heavily impacted by cattle grazing, botanists feared the worst. The plant had only been spotted once before, in 1925, in Australia. After that ...
"It seemed that the world had stopped turning its gears. Nature surprises us. Finding a species that hasn't been heard of in nearly two centuries doesn't happen every day. It was an incredible moment, ...
A specimen was collected from the site, which confirmed the identification, proving that the species had been living quietly ...