With a maximum length of 4.1 inches and an average weight of 0.02 oz., the Barbados threadsnake is "thought to be the world's ...

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.

Gene editing technologies—such as those used in agriculture and de-extinction projects—can be repurposed to offer what an ...

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

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 ...

The new species, Allographa effusosoredica, belongs to a group of crustose (crust-like) lichens known for their discrete, ...