A species of old-growth tree that is totally new to science has been hiding out in a narrow slice of mountain rainforest in ...

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Along India’s southwestern coast, a species not seen for 73 years in the scientific record was rediscovered. Miguel Baixauli ...

“There is currently no sign of a slowdown in new (species) descriptions,” Ziegler said. So far, Ziegler’s research group has ...

The name vaquita was popularized from local fishermen's name for the species. DESCRIPTION: Stocky and sleek, the vaquita is among the smallest living cetaceans, measuring less than five feet in length ...

The “people of the forest” won’t live in the wild much longer if we keep chopping down their rainforest homes.

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The forests of the site include some of the best representatives of non-equatorial tropical evergreen forests anywhere and are home to at least 325 globally threatened flora, fauna, bird, amphibian, ...

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