Scientists have identified a brand-new species of worm living in the Great Salt Lake, marking only the third known animal ...

As darkness settled across southern China, a "large" creature with spines on its belly sat in a stream. Its multicolored eyes searched the nearby forest, but it wasn't the only one looking around.

As you get closer to the bottom of the ocean, it gets darker, denser and stranger. All light from the surface has been absorbed, and only the most adapted species can navigate the lack of oxygen in ...

In a forest of southern India, a pregnant creature hid under a rock in some leaves. The “cryptic” animal had been overlooked for years, but that was about to change. Visiting scientists spotted the ...

Scientists found a blotchy brown creature with “slender” limbs near a tourist site in Vietnam and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Vinh Quang Luu via Nguyen, Nguyen, Nguyen, Ha, Le, ...

Scientists found a “large”-eyed creature with “long” arms in a rocky crevice in a forest of China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Lu Chen via Liu, Chen, Xu and Wu (2025) In a ...

On a coral reef off the eastern coast of Australia, scuba divers set up a tent-like trap in hopes of collecting some easily overlooked marine life. The approach worked and caught a red-eyed sea ...

Fossils offer the opportunity to look at an era of time permanently frozen in stone. Dinosaurs swallowed by mud or plants pressed into the ground over millions of years create imprints of a world long ...

Scientists found a “giant” creature with a “stout” body lurking near a stream in Madagascar and discovered a new species, a study said . Screengrab from Domaine de la Cascade Plantation Lansargues’s ...

Scientists found a “bent-toed” creature with “large” eyes lurking around a village in Indonesia and discovered a new species, a study said. Google Street View ...