Four months later, scientists returned and found the toads in the forest's leaf litter. They were silent, and the researchers ...

The zone was called “an endemic hotspot” by Weston, who is eager to see what else lies in the lurch in the geographically isolated Atacama. Details of the newly found sea creatures are ...

Biodiversity hotspots: Regions that are both rich in endemic species and significantly threatened by human activities. This Nature Research Intelligence Topic summary is one of 30,000 created with ...

Researchers have long known that islands are hotspots for species diversity ... has the world's highest percentage of plant species endemic to a single island. Until now we didn't know much ...

Guinea celebrates today the elimination of sleeping sickness (also known as human African trypanosomiasis or HAT) as a public health problem.

Hosting several rare and endemic species, Bjeshkët e Nemuna, a mountainous region in western Kosovo, is a hotspot for caddisfly diversity. Despite this richness, however, Kosovo's freshwater ...