Characidium dumonti lives among the rocks and pebbles at the bottom of the fast-flowing streams in the national park, ...

The “tiny” snake is often mistaken for an earthworm and is being shipped globally unintentionally in the root balls of ornamental plants, researchers said.

To combat one of Australia’s most troublesome species, researchers are developing hungry tadpoles that never grow up ...

Scientists have identified the world’s first three-toed footprints of tail-clubbed ankylosaurid dinosaurs in the Canadian ...

In a forested region of Angola where a cliff separates the landscape, a new species of butterfly was discovered. /iStockphoto ...

Ever since Charles Darwin, scientists have assumed species facing the same problem often evolve similar traits. But that’s ...

Ethicists and conservationists appear to be divided over what the purpose of bringing back extinct species should be – and whether it matters.