But what about species more familiar to humans, such as tetrapods? Herpetologists often recount stories about encountering ..

By Bobby Bascomb Just 0.7% of the world’s land surface is home to one-third of the world’s most threatened and unique ...

Research shows that conserving just 0.7% of the world’s land could protect a third of threatened tetrapod species. The study ...

where 0.7% of our planet’s land can house a stunning one third of threatened tetrapod species. The team at Imperial College London, backed by supporting organizations, On the Edge and ZSL, have ...

In an article published in the journal Environmental Pollution, Brazilian researchers showed that tree species Tipuana tipu have been successfully employed as a marker of atmospheric pollution by ...

Pipins added, "It is crucial to not just consider species diversity in conservation efforts, but also the evolutionary history of diversity, to ensure that large and unique branches from the tree ...

When the terrestrial vertebrates (tetrapods) emerged in the Devonian, the adaptation of their auditory systems for air-borne hearing led to many changes, and eventually to the emergence of an ...

Written by Smithsonian botanist W. John Kress, the book details more than 300 North American tree species in words, maps and photographs—and why we shouldn’t take them for granted Jennie ...

It was then, at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, that Thomas Huxley, an English biologist and representative of the new theory of evolution, bested in debate Samuel Wilberforce ...