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

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

In fact, all our favorite marine animals – sharks and dolphins, turtles and rays, and all those pretty colored fish in our ...

New Species of Killifish from Kenya Already Critically ... but its survival is already threatened by ... Some Animals Cooperate With Members of Other Species Feb. 25, 2025 — Some animals are ...

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

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

On a cold, windy evening, a “pygmy” creature with “leaf”-like toes emerged from its hiding place in a remote region of South Africa. Undeterred by the weather, it scampered across the rocks. Visiting ...

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

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

Hikers in Papua New Guinea heard the “harsh” sound coming from the treetops and followed it. Take a look at what they ...

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

Scientists found a pregnant 1-foot-long creature with a venomous bite in a mountain forest and discovered a new species, a ...