The Amazon rainforest has yielded yet another new species, according to a recent study published in Zootaxa. Discovered in ...

One of the most attractive targets for deep sea mining advocates is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a continent-sized ...

In the canopies of a South American rainforest, a tiny soldier termite has stunned a team of international scientists with ...

Conservationists are hoping to strengthen regulations at a wildlife trade conference on birds, reptiles and other animals ...

Researchers have confirmed a new jaguar in southern Arizona, marking what they say is the fifth big cat over the last 15 ...

Scientists discover a new weasel species, Mustela mopbie, in China’s Hengduan Mountains. Its slender build allows hunting in ...

Scientists reveal Priocharax rex, a tiny Amazonian fish with a strange skin “wing” that redefines evolution in miniature.

Scientists reveal the existence of a new species of Colombian porcupine, Coendou vossi, that remained hidden for decades in ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human ...

We'd like to welcome this curious armless burrowing lizard into the New Species Hall of Fame. Despite being built for life ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, ...

Discover Lycodon irwini, a newly identified jet-black wolf snake from India’s Great Nicobar Island, named in honor of Steve ...