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

The death of this ancient species, discovered alongside more newly described mammals, had been greatly exaggerated.

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

"It's a really strange animal, and the weird twist in the jaw drove us crazy trying to figure it out." ...

A newly identified termite species with a whale-like head reveals unexpected diversity within the Cryptotermes genus.

Researchers exploring Uganda’s Kibale National Park have discovered seven new species of frog-like leafhoppers. The tiny ...

The Flying Squirrel Squad at the University of Nebraska is keeping an eye on southern flying squirrels as they expand their ...

Scientists found a jaw so bizarre they assumed it was broken - they were very wrong.

Those bizarre sea creatures that light up like carnival rides are actually ctenophores, which have an ancient brainlike ...

T he blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. A pale spike resembling ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...