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Professor John Wiens from the University of Arizona has shed new light on the pace of new species discoveries — and how it ...

At first glance, the Drake Equation looks like a hopeful scientific tool. In reality, it leads to disturbing possibilities about isolation, extinction, and survival. This breakdown explains the ...

Every episode of season 5 of The Big Questions podcast is now available, where we explore the biggest questions in science ...

In 1994, the fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter with a force equal to 300 million atomic bombs.

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Known to science as Iguana delicatissima (as in Latin for “most delicate”, not delicatessen, you hungry hungry humans), ...

The Lesser Antillean iguana is a critically endangered species that has vanished from much of the Eastern Caribbean. Among ...

Thanks to an ambitious programme of cross-Caribbean matchmaking, a new population of the critically endangered Lesser ...