Scientists have identified a new legless amphibian, Gegeneophis chandgadi, discovered in backyard leaf litter in Buzawade village, Maharashtra. The elusive caecilian, often mistaken for earthworms, highlights hidden biodiversity in human-modified landscapes…

Researchers have identified a new species of darkling beetle, named Steneucyrtus wayanadensis, in the lush forests of Kerala’s Western Ghats. The shimmering new insect, belonging to the genus Steneucy...

The Baobab family tree just grew larger.

The Alien of the Abyss In the dark depths of the Pacific, a truly otherworldly fish has been filmed moving in a way never seen before. Those “legs” are actually fin rays, and its way of walking shatters everything we thought we knew about fish locomotion.…

MANILA, Philippines — A rare plant species believed to have been lost has been rediscovered in the limestone forests of Masungi in Rizal province.

Paleontologists in Spain say they have found the first evidence of the long-necked Diplodocus genus of dinosaur outside of North America. They found bones at the rich La Tejeria fossil site in Teruel in eastern Spain.

Dr. Stephen Kane from the University of California, Riverside and colleagues offer a tidy explanation for one of the Solar System’s enduring puzzles: why Venus, so similar to Earth in size and mass, has no moon at all.

Sequence found in Sars-CoV-2 had never been seen in another bat coronavirus until now

University of Wollongong researcher’s dating work helps to establish the timeline behind one of the longest records of Denisovan occupation.

The recent study was carried out by researchers from the Mizoram University and the National Research and Innovation Agency in Indonesia.

Zoo authorities in Hong Kong are keeping close watch on a monkey that is behaving unusually a day after the ninth death this week of one of the animals, while hastening tests to find out what killed them. During the monitoring, the city's Zoological and Botanical…

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have identified how certain dangerous bacteria spread. They studied chain-like adherence pattern (CLAP) varieties of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), ...

The mammals have been here before, but as hitchhikers rather than residents.

This huge guy was 83-feet long and a member of the longest land animals ever known.

Scientists have returned genetically identified Floreana giant tortoises to the Galápagos island, reviving a lost population and supporting the restoration of its ecosystem.

Police have not linked the deaths to a serial killer but are investigating this possibility.

A major inquiry into the case of New Zealand man Tom Phillips, who hid his children in dense forest for years before he died in a police shootout, has criticized officials for not taking seriously enough the harms and risks to the children early in the saga…