Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. The new species was ...

Sunlight filtered through the trees of a rainforest in northern Peru and illuminated an “iridescent” creature. Its “golden” ...

In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the ...

Among those that were new was a “blob-headed fish” in the Chaetostoma genus, which includes bristlemouth armored catfish. The ...

Scientists found a pregnant 1-foot-long creature with a venomous bite in a mountain forest and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Edgar Lehr via Lehr, Lundberg, Cusi, Sites Jr., Torres ...

Researchers said they named the new species “karichigara” after the Tagalaka phrase “‘Kari Chigara Changgala,’ meaning ...

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A researcher was wading through a shallow stream in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee while conducting a survey for road ...

We will discover new tools, new ways that we can help species that are still alive but in danger of becoming extinct.” ...

New Species of Killifish from Kenya Already Critically ... Sea is in fact a giant clone of common bladderwrack, perhaps the world's largest clone overall. The discovery has implications ...

Tamil short-tail congers live on the “sandy bottom of shallow waters” and are “carnivores, mostly (feeding) on small ...

Near a village in northeastern India, a “dwarf”-like creature with a “large” mouth swam through the river — or tried to, at ...