At an eel restaurant near Tokyo, four friends sit down to eat a Japanese delicacy now the subject of a heated international ...

This episode is brought to you by the Music for Scientists album! We’ve long thought that electric eels hunt ...

Drop an e-mail to the good folks at a culinary-specific bookstore, such as Kitchen Arts & Letters, in New York, or Now ...

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the ...

Recent epic leaps in genetics have created a biodiversity library. As the genetic make-up of animals, plants, fungi, bacteria ...

Michigan State University biologist Jason Gallant argues that it’s time science looked beyond traditional lab models like ...

Recent epic leaps in genetics have created a biodiversity library. As the genetic make-up of animals, plants, fungi, bacteria ...

Recent epic leaps in genetics have created a biodiversity library. As the genetic make-up of animals, plants, fungi, bacteria ...

The Muraenidae and November’s Coral Bleaching Awareness Month by Ariana Wilson November marks the beginning of Coral Bleaching Awareness Month. Organizations, conservationists and lovers of ...

Eels have been a staple of European diets for millennia, from London’s jellied eels to Spanish angulas. But the world’s appetite is bringing them to the brink of extinction. European rivers once ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of spider hiding in plain sight in coastal California’s sand dunes. The arachnologists from UC Davis published their find this month in the journal Ecology and ...

Nestled in the shade next to the flamingo lagoon, a new plant species has been quietly growing at the San Diego Zoo. The dainty bamboo palm, as it is now named, is a new plant species that was ...