The discovery of a satellite tag from a subadult female white shark in Indonesia marks the first recorded connectivity of white shark movement between South Africa and Southeast Asia.

Assigning human qualities to animals is dangerous for them — and for us.

How does a blind cave beetle end up being named after a Nazi dictator? Or a fossil after a famous British broadcaster? 
There is no one answer because the process of naming species — for both scientific and common names — is complex and inconsistent and sometimes produces names that, over time, become offensive. 
Here’s what you should know about how species are named — and occasionally renamed:

Why do species have both scientific and common names?
Many species, like the Slovenian blind cave be...

With a new governor on the horizon, Jakarta's citizens are doubtful, as the incoming leaders bring neither new nor revolutionary efforts to tackle air pollution.
In the last weeks of 2024, Jakarta received a bright gift of clear blue sky, an unusual sighting in a city often covered by choking smog that made the country’s capital the world’s most polluted city. But the clear horizon may not last long, as it depends on the weather and wind that may change.Jakartans’ hope fo...

When scientists from the University of Calgary recovered samples of dormant, heat-loving bacteria from two locations thousands of kilometers apart in the Atlantic Ocean, they were on a mission to prove something: These two kinds of thermophilic bacteria came from the same place.

Scientists have long suspected that the endospores (a dormant form of bacteria that can survive harsh conditions the bacteria otherwise wouldn’t) at both sites, Svalbard and the Labrador Sea, might share the same warm,...