A newly discovered Triassic reptile from the UK looked more like a racing greyhound than a crocodile, built for speed on land ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for "The Lord of the Rings" universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they're very real creatures living in the deep sea. Some of these otherworldly ocean ...

The animal, who was seen at Kaili Zoo in Guizhou on October 28, has four distinct horns growing in multiple directions from its head.

In Nebraska, an elusive mammal that looks like your garden-variety tree squirrel but has strikingly large eyes and a rudder-like tail has recently created a stir. The southern flying squirrel ...

Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography described two of the new species — Iskra’s glitter worm and the Elven abyss tunicate — that made the top 10 list.

Four tarantulas discovered in Arabia and Africa form a new genus, Satyrex, distinguished by males with unusually long palps ...

After a year and a half of remote work and learning, UC Santa Barbara undergraduate students Sophia Lecuona Manos, Gabrielle ...

A frog species known since 1838 may actually be several different species, according to a new genetic study of Southeast Asia’s “fanged frogs.” ...

Picture this: you’re a scientist digging near the Amazon rainforest, and you pull a jawbone out of the ground that looks so wrong you assume it broke underground. Then you find another one. Same weird ...

Platypuses are weird looking. They look like someone stitched together a duck and a beaver—flat bill, webbed feet, and a ...