Cape Town, in South Africa, is famous for its dramatic mountains and coastline, but its greatest treasure lies in the plants that carpet its slopes and valleys. Table Mountain National Park and its ...

soil porosity; soil bulk density; soil structure; penetration resistance; hydraulic conductivity Maintaining soil health requires responsible management practices that prioritize conservation.

The INBD model proposed in the paper "Iterative Next Boundary Detection for Instance Segmentation of Tree Rings in Microscopy Images of Shrub Cross Sections" was trained on the Pinus taeda species.

Scientists recently discovered a new species of green anaconda in the Amazon rainforest. A new Nat Geo series shows the moment they encountered this snake in the wild. When you purchase through links ...

Scientists described several new species this past year, including a tiny marsupial, a Himalayan bat, an ancient tree, a giant manta ray, a bright blue butterfly and a fairy lantern, to name a few.

Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the ...

Researchers announced over 70 new species in a single year, including bizarre insects, ancient dinosaurs, rare mammals, and deep-river fish. Many were found not in the wild, but in museum collections, ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

A reassessment of the iconic species has “some dramatic implications for how we view giraffe conservation across Africa,” a new study concludes. A Masai giraffe, native to East Africa, is one of four ...

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Abstract: Phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) is a key enzyme of the phenylpropanoid pathway. PAL genes are less extensively studied in gymnosperms than angiosperms. Our interest in the PAL genes in ...

A novel analysis suggests more than 3,500 animal species are threatened by climate change and also sheds light on huge gaps in fully understanding the risk to the animal kingdom. A novel analysis ...