For nearly two decades, no one had spotted the world’s smallest-known snake. “After a year of searching, you begin to get a ...

A newly discovered trove of fossilized footprints provides what may be the first evidence of prehistoric diversity in ...

Gene editing may hold the key to rescuing endangered species—not just by preserving them, but by restoring their lost genetic ...

Since 1979, Dinosaur Provincial Park has provided paleontologists with troves of fossilized remains, mostly in the form of ...

The new species belongs to the Clavelina genus of sea squirts. Tiny and strange, the animal measures just 20 millimetres long ...

It's Shark Week, and Mammoth Cave took the unofficial holiday to announce the discovery of a ancient shark species.

Scientists have suspected that direct lightning strikes are good for some trees, but now they’ve confirmed it. A new study ...

Norway is home to 212 different bee species. Or perhaps rather: the country used to have 212 species. Insect numbers are ...

In a temporary pond, far from being a permanent feature, a new rainbow-coloured fish has been found. What seemed to be an ...

Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are being wiped out by avian malaria. Scientists think they can battle the problem by ...

Researchers from Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) have discovered a deep-sea limpet species 6 ...