Two tiny sea creatures with translucent bodies found on the California coast are both new species. They’re sea slugs, part of ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

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

The new species was identified off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. The body of water ...

One of the study’s authors named the two new species, Etheostoma kimberlae and Etheostoma michellae, after his daughter, ...

These are attractive and rather widespread, but they are preceded, often before winter is over, by a species that nobody ...

Banyans usually grow on hardwood hammocks. They are considered a keystone species, essential to the hardwood tropical ...

While this spider species gets its intimidating name from the cannibalistic practice of females eating males after mating, this rarely happens. Here's what to know. Size: From roughly .25 of an inch ...

For the first time in over 10,000 years, the howl of a dire wolf is echoing once more—this time, from within a secretive ...

Dotting the ground beneath towering forests of the Pacific Northwest is a bizarre mushroom that looks like a molar, dotted ...

From the shapeless bulbous blobfish to the white, fuzzy-armed yeti crab, some animals live up to their name. The same is true for the Malay Crestless Fireback. Males of the pheasant species, native to ...

Paleontologists in England discovered the existence of a new marine species that roamed the Earth before the dinosaurs and ...