Just don’t get too attached to these beauties; they are notoriously short-lived. Species tulips, sometimes called wild or botanical tulips, are the unlikely ancestors of modern showboat blooms.

This sheds light on the ... Apr. 17, 2024 — Researchers have shown that an Amazonian butterfly is a hybrid species, formed by two other species breeding together almost 200,000 years ago.

New Butterfly Species Created 200,000 Years Ago by Two Species Interbreeding Apr. 17, 2024 — Researchers have shown that an Amazonian butterfly is a hybrid species, formed by two other species ...

But I found a few species tulips as I walked through Phillip Mears’ garden on Fairview Avenue in Iowa City—and I found so much more. The Mears house, front, back, and sides, is surrounded ...

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Over the past 4 billion years, lifeforms have evolved into the spectacular array of species that now inhabit the planet. While many species radiated into extensive families of closely related… ...

The lone wild population of Javan rhinos is one of the rarest of the rhino species—around 75 individuals—which can only be found on the island of Java, Indonesia. The Ujung Kulon National Park, a ...

The UK Species Inventory is a database of all UK wildlife and it provides the taxonomic foundation for most biological recording and analysis systems. The Natural History Museum maintains this ...

Scientists predict that more than 1 million species could go extinct in the coming decades. That’s according to theCenter for Biological Diversity. When a species goes extinct, there are ...

Since more and more species are dying, it creates an increasing number of genetic bottlenecks, which make animal and plant survival even more difficult. Take for example the white rhinoceros ...

Driving through Coralville and across Iowa City this last week, I had a hard time keeping my eyes on the road. Color is everywhere. I passed purple redbud trees, reddish-purple crabapple covered ...

Within a forest's soil, hundreds of species decompose debris, mobilize nutrients from that ... A new paper published today (April 24) in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 ...