A routine expedition surprises scientists by revealing a unique animal, Mustela mopbie, with a secret ability that could ...

A completely new order of marine sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug ...

A gelatinous mass with bluish reflections, on the sand of a beach in Miyagi Prefecture (Japan): this is what caught the trained eye of a biologist during an ordinary walk. This encounter ...

Archaeologists discovered the remains of a 5,500-year-old wildcat, placing the species on Irish soil almost 4,000 years ...

Scientists continue to discover animals that seem almost too strange to be real. Even with shrinking habitats and climate pressures, new discoveries continue to emerge in rivers, forests, oceans, and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants ...

The crowd of animals was discovered as part of the Walrus from Space project, which is using satellite imagery to explore what might happen to these huge marine mammals as the climate changes.

When animal charity rescuer Lisa Dean got a tip-off to look for a missing dog at a farm, she did not know it would lead to the discovery of hundreds of neglected animals. Ms Dean, founder of Beauty's ...

Paleontologists from Petrified Forest National Park and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History named and described a new species of "unusual, long-necked reptile" after microfossils of the ...

Hunter Bartelt of the Discovery Center and Donna Routh of Thunder Bear Horse Rance stop by to tell us about the Holiday ...