It’s a bit like giving the soil a DNA test.” A new droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method quantifies root DNA directly from soil ...

Researchers developed a forensic proteomics workflow that identified the species origin of hair using protein biomarkers ...

Insects may be even more dominant on Earth than scientists thought. A new estimate suggests the planet could hold 14 million ...

The closest thing marine taxonomists have to the Olympics is now underway in San Diego. But instead of racing for medals, leading scientists are spending two weeks working together to catalog the ...

A new study more than doubles previous estimates of how many distinct kinds of insects are currently inhabiting the planet.

A new study has presented an updated estimate of the total number of insect species worldwide. The results suggest that 8 ...

Dr Robert Puschendorf, Associate Professor of Conservation Biology, used his expertise in the tropical rainforests of ...

Scientists estimate at least between 14 and 30 million insect species, not just six million.

Scientists studying Puerto Rico's shark fishery made an unexpected discovery: juvenile scalloped hammerheads being caught ...

Earth has a dizzying diversity of insects, with beetles alone making up 25 percent of all named animal species. The new ...

After much discussion, the scientific community settled on an estimate of around six million species. This conservative ...

Scientists at North Carolina State University have pinned the mystery on the tile-horned prionus, Prionus imbricornis, a ...