NEW DELHI — For more than a century, two mysterious tree frog specimens collected by a British naturalist in 1870 and housed at the Natural History Museum in London were assumed to be part of a ...

In the closing weeks of 2013 David Cameron made pig semen a headline topic. However, this was not another PR stunt by the prime minister, but a £45m export deal between China and the UK. As ever the ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its wild relatives, revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species and ...

A new species of monkey identified in Tanzania's highlands last year is an even more remarkable find than scientists once thought. It belongs to a new genus of animal, the first new living primate ...

A re-analysis of dinosaur skulls from northern Alaska suggests they belong to a genus Edmontosaurus, and not to the genus recently proposed by scientists in 2015. A re-analysis of dinosaur skulls from ...

Taxonomy is the science that attempts to categorise the many millions of species on Earth. Find out how to define taxonomy, what taxonomists do and why classifying life is so important. The definition ...

Scientists say they're filling in some of the most frustrating gaps in the story of human evolution — thanks to the discovery of the oldest known fossil from the genus to which we belong, plus the ...

A species of monkey discovered in the highland forests of Tanzania last year is so unique that it's been assigned its own genus, scientists said today. The finding, detailed in this week's issue of ...