After Ali Swanson, an ecology researcher from the University of Minnesota, set up 225 cameras over 400 square miles of Tanzania's Serengeti National Park, she was hit by the curse of Big Data: how do ...

Scientists have harnessed artificial intelligence to classify lion roars, a tool they say could help with lion conservation.

When considering the scientists who influenced our understanding of evolution, it’s natural to think of Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Rosalind Franklin, W.D. Hamilton, Barbara McClintock, and Richard ...

For centuries, philosophers, naturalists and scientists have been trying to devise systems that group living things according to their similarities and presumed relationships. That's taxonomy the ...

The question of what defines a species has vexed scientists across the ages, particularly in conservation, where decisions require a firm understanding of biodiversity. When you purchase through links ...

National Geographic estimates there are between 50 billion and 430 billion birds populating the planet, outnumbering humans by up to approximately 50 times. Spread across 9,700 species, according to ...