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 ...

The iNaturalist app and website lets average users participate in citizen science projects and identifies plants and animals from photos. Credit: mashable / vicky leta A Mashable Choice Award is a ...

We share our planet with maybe 10 million species of plants, animals, birds, fish, fungi and bugs. And to help identify them, millions of people are using a free phone app. "Currently we have about ...

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 world has been gripped by the case of Australian woman Erin Patterson, who was charged with the murder of three people after allegedly serving them a lunch of beef wellington containing poisonous ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. iNaturalist, a global citizen science platform where users collaborate to identify uploaded photos of fauna and flora, saw its observations from ...