The VIP orchid programme, often dubbed ‘orchid diplomacy’, started in 1956, when Singapore was still a British colony ...

Abstract: We introduce WildlifeMapper (WM), a flexible model designed to detect, locate, and identify multiple species in aerial imagery. It addresses the limitations of traditional, labor-intensive ...

Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The ...

The selection of spider-infecting zombie parasites, stone-camouflaged plants, and a “fire demon flower” is certainly worth a ...

Scientists warn that human activities are “eroding nature to the point of extinction” after releasing a list of new species ...

Telipogon cruentilabrum is one of four new rare and spectacular Telipogon species described in 2025 by Dr Carlos Martel, ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...

Art lovers are invited to rediscover the forgotten Pompadour orchid and contemplate the mechanism of valuation during "To ...

ABSTRACT: We aim to evaluate the evolutionary trends of pollen ultra-structures and microstructures in the light of molecular phylogeny, and to test whether pollen micromorphology is a predictor of ...

ABSTRACT: We aim to evaluate the evolutionary trends of pollen ultra-structures and microstructures in the light of molecular phylogeny, and to test whether pollen micromorphology is a predictor of ...

Female praying mantises are notorious for eating their mates during or after sex. Now, scientists have discovered a dwarf mantis species in which males avoid this fate with an elaborate dance ...

A sea spider. This is a type of animal that is related to land spiders but does not belong to that group. They can grow to the size of a palm in the deep sea around Antarctica, but this particular ...