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

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 ...

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

As they cling to leaf tips, newborn warty birch caterpillars produce vibrations that can ward off invaders approaching their ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a ...

A new study shows that the forces creating mountain ranges can also drive species diversity, illuminating how Earth’s geological processes shape the evolution of life. The work marks a breakthrough in ...

Scientists found an armless creature with clawed toes burrowing in a remote area of Queensland, Australia, and discovered a new species, a study said. Screengrab from @scottmacor's Instagram In a ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of the elusive 'fairy lantern' genus Thismia in a hill dipterocarp forest in eastern Peninsular Malaysia A new study, published in PhytoKeys, highlights ...

Unlike its therizinosaur brethren, the new species had only two claws instead of three. When Hokkaido University paleontologist and lead study author Yoshitsugu Kobayashi first saw the fossils the ...

A common species of shark in New Zealand has been recorded making clicking sounds underwater. Researchers hypothesise that the noise comes from the spotted estuary smooth-hound forcefully snapping ...