A species is a group of living organisms that are all broadly similar and can, at least in principle, breed with one another. This seems straightforward enough, but the word “species” is actually ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Darren Curnoe receives funding from the Australian Research Council. How many kinds of plants and animals are there in the world? Where do humans fit within the vast fabric of life? Indeed, how did ...

Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning ...

Until a decade ago, scientists categorized microorganisms almost exclusively by their physical characteristics: how they looked, what they ate, and the by-products they produced. With the advent of ...