A "peculiar" new species of Jurassic squid-like animal has been unearthed in Wyoming, U.S., following the discovery of two exceptionally rare fossils dating to around 160 million years ago.

Researchers from the University of Latvia (UL), in collaboration with Swedish and Australian palaeontologists, have discovered and described a new, previously unknown lungfish species in Upper Devonian deposits in Kurzeme. The species has been named in honour…

Researchers examining ancient underwater volcanoes identified 149 species never before described by science in the Indian Ocean near Australia.

Sites’ work adds to decades of research at the university documenting Earth’s biodiversity through taxonomy and field exploration.

“This one is unlike anything I have ever seen!”

​A new plant species, Ophiopogon nanlingensis, has been discovered in the candidate area for Nanling National Park in Guangdong.

The Hammerschmiede clay pit near Pforzen in the eastern Allgäu is famous for its wealth of finds: Besides fossils of two early anthropoid apes, the remains of numerous vertebrate species have been uncovered ...

A team of researchers from Brazil and the United States has made a groundbreaking discovery in the Amazon rainforest, identifying a previously unknown species of spider with unique adaptations to its…

Assistant Professor Julia Van Etten researches how organisms acquire genes from other species through a process

UCLA biologists have made an incredible new discovery about a species of strange, flat frogs with minuscule eyes in the Amazon basin that catch their prey in an unusual way. The water in the Amazon…

They have named it Pomacentrus bangladeshius (Bengal demoiselle)

Paleoanthropologists have identified a trove of Denisovan fossils from a cave in China’s Yunnan province, extending the known range of the elusive human relative and providing the first-ever direct evidence of what its forearm bones looked like.

The endangered nabarlek is not easy to find and difficult to distinguish from similar species. But a research team made new detections of the animals that offer “good news for their long-term survival”

Anthropic's detailed report notes seven areas of harm its researchers disrupted over the last nine months.