Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Users submit “observations” of an individual organism they have encountered in the wild to the iNaturalist app on their phone or ...

Every time someone snaps a wildlife photo with iNaturalist, they might be fueling breakthrough science. From rediscovering lost species to helping conservation agencies track biodiversity and invasive ...

A frog croaks from a walking trail. A hiker snaps a photo and uploads it to iNaturalist. That single act—one person, one amphibian and one click—feeds into a growing global dataset that scientists now ...

Mindy Fawver is retired from a career in commercial photography and graphic design, while her husband, Doug Bruce, works as an industrial alignment engineer; neither has a professional background in ...

Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect? In a new study published in Citizen Science: Theory ...

The number of peer-reviewed studies using iNaturalist data has surged more than tenfold in the past five years, new research shows. Reading time 3 minutes With a smartphone in hand, anyone can be a ...

Thousands of scientific papers have used data collected by users of the platform iNaturalist, according to new research. By Emily Anthes In the spring of 2019, a nature photographer hiking in the ...

Using more than 652,000 observations uploaded to iNaturalist (left), UC Berkeley scientists created an AI model to predict the distribution of 2,221 species of plants around the state. To train the ...

The Okefenokee Swamp is the largest black water swamp in North America, and provides habitat for animals like American alligators and blue herons. Credit: Megan Varner via Getty Images In April, more ...

UVic's Brian Starzomski in the field. iNaturalist is an international program run out of California, and there are many programs under that umbrella. One program is the partnership between UVic, Simon ...