While many plants and animals are lost to us forever, this little bird has just been very good at hiding. Here's how scientists were able to find it again.

"It's one of these situations where everything had to fall into place and there was a bit of good fortune involved."

The beetle is smaller than a grain of rice, and it had not been seen alive since Franklin Roosevelt’s first year in office. But in late 2025, biology students at the University of Louisville cracked open a batch of ant nests collected from a wooded area near…

In 2005, researchers described what they believed to be a new family, genus, and species of rodent. It was a delightfully adorable discovery in the realm of squirrel research, but hardly Pulitzer Prize-winning science. What followed, however, was far stranger.…

For two decades, Vietnam’s Pu Hoat Nature Reserve in Nghe An province suffered from “empty forest syndrome,” an ecological crisis where entire groups of animals vanish, leaving the forest unnaturally quiet. Top predators like tigers, leopards, and Eurasian…

The giant lacewing (Polystoechotes punctata) is the kind of insect most people would never expect to see clinging to the outside of a Walmart. It belongs to an ancient insect lineage often described as dating back to the Jurassic era, and the species itself…

A new species of cricket has been discovered inside a man-made tunnel on a small island in Greece.

A sea slug smaller than a sesame seed has turned up in Taiwan’s coastal waters — and it’s so tiny and unusual that scientists realized they had discovered a completely new species. Named Thecacera sesama after its black-and-yellow “sesame-like” appearance…

The bird is of cultural significance to the Māori people of New Zealand, and its numbers are starting to increase again.

For generations, stories of mysterious camels wandering the deserts of Arizona have fascinated travelers, prospectors, and locals alike. But these sightings weren't just legends. In the 1850s, the U.S. Army launched an ambitious experiment to use camels in…

Paleontologists have identified a new species of the axolotl genus Ambystoma from several fossilized specimens found deep in the rocky outcrops of the Mexican state of Hidalgo.

A camera trap has recorded a species that had not been confirmed in the region for decades, raising new questions about habitat recovery, conservation success, and what may still be hiding in some of the world's least-visited landscapes.

By Marta Serafinko June 3 (Reuters) - For the past century, the Blue-fronted Lorikeet was one of Indonesia's most elusive birds, known only from a 2014 photographic record and a handful of museum specimens, with a lingering hope that it had not vanished.…

The bush dog is one of the rarest and strangest wild canids on Earth. For years, scientists believed it was extinct due to how rarely it was seen. Despite its small size, it hunts in packs and can take down prey as large as tapirs. Its webbed feet make it…