While mold doesn’t have the best reputation, some types can actually be quite beneficial. Take Penicillium, for example—it’s ...

The true, forgotten and sometimes-stinky history of the cohort who took Alexander Fleming's innovation and forever changed ...

When similar species coexist, they often evolve differences to reduce competition, a process called character displacement. This study provides rare evidence of character displacement in action ...

The Species at Risk Act (SARA) establishes Schedule 1, as the official list of wildlife species at risk. It classifies those species as being either extirpated, endangered, threatened, or a special ...

Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's gold in central New York. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei ...

Pixabay Trees are in trouble: More than one-third of known species around the globe are at risk of disappearing, according to a new assessment. On Monday, the International Union for Conservation ...

Bachmann and Bonner 1 were able to obtain free protoplasts from Neurospora crassa, if this fungus was cultivated in thick liquid media, such as 20 per cent sucrose and 10 per cent enzyme preparations.

More than a third of all tree species worldwide face extinction, threatening ecosystems, plants, animals and economies around the world, experts warned Monday. In all, 38% of trees are at risk ...

Nov. 12, 2024 — A recent study highlights that over one-third of Vietnam's 329 mammal species are threatened with ... Invasive Plants Drive Homogenization of Soil Microbial Communities Across U ...

Fungal Physiology, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute & Fungal Molecular Physiology, Utrecht University, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands ...

One in seven species of deepwater sharks and rays is threatened with extinction because of the liver oil and meat trade and emerging fishing technologies that make it possible to catch deep-sea fishes ...

Immediately contact the Emergency Animal Disease Hotline on 1800 675 888. Australia is home to between 600,000 and 700,000 species, many of which are found nowhere else in the world. About 84 per cent ...