A University of Arizona study finds scientists are discovering 16,000 new species annually — and DNA tools may reveal ...

Scientists are identifying more than 16,000 new species each year, and DNA tools could reveal billions more hiding.

Scientists say Earth could contain billions of undiscovered species, and new DNA tools may accelerate discoveries faster than ever.

While the bacterial microbiome is now recognized as a key hallmark of cancer, the fungal component, the mycobiome, remains a largely unexplored frontier in ...

Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be ...

Chloracidobacterium validum – valid description of a new family and order of Acidobacteria BRAUNSCHWEIG, LOWER SAXONY AREA, GERMANY, February 18, 2026 / EINPresswire.com / — The Department of ...

Recent advances have increased the number of bacteria, protists, fungi, and insects are known to science, making it difficult to count the total number of species on Earth.

Exterminators keep getting calls for a reason. Wood-devouring insects, such as beetles, termites, and carpenter ants, are constantly chewing through walls or infecting trees and breaking them down.

‘I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out?

Research over the years has found that a black mold, formed from a number of different fungi, has been growing toward radioactive particles, and surviving on ionizing radiation, at the Chernobyl ...

Fungi’s evolutionary roots stretch far deeper than once believed — up to 1.4 billion years ago, long before plants or animals appeared. Using advanced molecular dating and gene transfer analysis, ...