In a river of South Africa, a patterned creature with a “sickle shaped” mouth swam through the “dark peat-stained” waters.

Scientists have learned that another species of fungus found in Europe and Asia causes white-nose disease, which has ravaged ...

A team ventured into the 2,000-year-old structures under a town in Spain and found some unfamiliar-looking animals. Take a ...

In a hard-to-reach cave of northeastern India, a “slender” river creature with “fleshy” lips tucked itself under a rock. A ...

As night settled over a mountain in southern Vietnam, a black-eyed creature with a “pointed” snout waited under some debris. But its hiding spot wasn’t so hidden. Visiting scientists found the lurking ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ago in Canada reveal.

For more than a century, scientists considered banded langurs, a type of reclusive, tree-dwelling monkey, to be a single species—but new research points to three separate ones. They've been ...

In the ancient Roman mine underneath Carmona, Spain, researchers discovered a new species of isopod named Baeticoniscus carmonaensis, or the Carmona isopod. This tiny crustacean, with its segmented ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have identified a previously unknown species of unicellular organism in seawater ...

The two new species have not yet been named. "These results were totally unexpected," former Larsson graduate student and lead author José Avila-Cervantes said. "We assumed Crocodylus acutus was ...

Scientists have discovered two new poison dart frog species in the Brazilian Amazon. The frogs belong to the Ranitomeya genus. One is Ranitomeya Aquamarina, with turquoise stripes. The other is ...

Researchers have shed new light on how the environment promotes the generation of new species. A study led by Dr. Benjamin Jarrett from Bangor University looked at what happens when two ...