species

Beyond the trees: Slope and species balance shape forest carbon storage

From 148 to 397 species: China's restored mangroves are bringing the birds back

The World's Largest Known Sponge Is The Size of a Minivan – And Its Species Is a Mystery

Reexamining sexual and species recognition in butterflies: The Partner-Hazard Space framework

Reexamining sexual and species recognition in butterflies: the Partner-Hazard Space framework

The 'shape' of gene expression: Identifying genes that may share roles across species

Biodiversity hotspots in south-west Germany are losing their species richness

This week in PNAS Journal Club: Three fossils of Ice Age American “cheetahs” found in the Yukon Territory offer the first full genome for the species. These extinct big cats were closely related to pumas, and ate a diet high in nitrogen, suggesting their main prey was fish, probably salmon.

Schrödinger’s Penguin: one species, two contrasting outcomes

Honeybees exert flower power over other species

AI platform and database map protein phase separation across species

Nature’s capacity to ‘bounce-back’ when species are lost vastly overestimated

Adversity shaped our evolution as a species. People raised in it may have underrecognized strengths because of it.

‘Thrilled’: huge swarms of bogong moths surprise NSW residents and may point to species’ recovery

Exceptional longevity across species linked to DNA maintenance, stemness and stress resistance

Seabed surveys around the Isles of Scilly find more than 90 species across habitats poorly captured by classifications

A new Galapagos Atlas that covers 68 species including distribution maps, and, unusually, catalogs everything scientists still don't know about them

Strange 'hobbit' species walked more like us than like 'Lucy,' hip bones reveal

This Amazing Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting. Here's How Joel Sartore Built His 'Photo Ark'

Scientists catch a “jumping gene” mid-leap between species