Five new animal species that camouflage themselves as excrement or bark reveal some of what still remains hidden in the world ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

Mushrooms that appear identical turn out to be different species, correcting decades of errors in biodiversity records.

Scientists warn that human activities are “eroding nature to the point of extinction” after releasing a list of new species named in 2025. View on euronews ...

Scientists in Australia say a group of “unusually large” funnel-web spiders is actually a new species in its own right. Researchers say they used anatomical and DNA comparisons to study different ...

A newly designated butterfly species, Euptychia andrewberryi, has been named in honor of Harvard lecturer Andrew J. Berry by postdoctoral fellow Shinichi Nakahara, who identified the species. Nakahara ...

In Australia, unique species abound – from koalas and kangaroos to wombats and emus. Now, the western laughing frog and a spider named for Tom Hardy are among the 750 new species recognized on the ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...