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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

This aerial view shows a riverside community of the Amazon rainforest by the Tocantins River in Cameta, Para state, Brazil on November 12, 2025, during the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference. MAURO ...