We’ve got some good news and bad news for nature lovers. The good news is, scientists have calculated the number of known plant species, and there are so many out there, you could spend the rest of ...

Some scientists estimate around 2 million animal and plant species inhabit Earth. Others approximate around 8 million. Bug experts note there are probably some 5.5 million insects species alone. One ...

An innovative new method of estimating the density of snake populations without employing the capture-mark-recapture technique has been created by a biologist. How can researchers determine the number ...

Many scientists have developed models to predict the total number of species on Earth—including those not yet discovered—of an animal or plant group, but University of Chicago researchers have ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — One person can’t measure all the trees in the world, but when many people come together, a global view becomes possible. A worldwide collaboration of scientists has produced the ...

Recording every individual in a population is impractical, unnecessary, and expensive (Magurran 1988). Instead community ecologists and scientists in general take replicated samples to represent the ...

Think you know birds? Think again. The number of avian species in the world soars to 18,000, a new report outlines. New research led by the American Museum of Natural History suggests that there are ...

Pliny the Elder. I wonder if he is frowning so intensely because he knows that in 2000 years his work is going to be roasted by some random woman in a blog post? After Pliny’s monstrosity, many ...