An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

A recent expedition into the forests of Madagascar found 21 examples of species that had been considered lost to science, including the first documented sighting of an approximately 10-inch-long ...

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A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

An Instagram post about the last two northern white rhinos references a scenario conservationists have warned us about for ...

RALEIGH – An interdisciplinary group of researchers is proposing a new way to think of some interactions between species, classifying a variety of plants, animals and fungi as “nature’s chefs.” ...

Scientists have newly described three extraordinary species of tree toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole stage. The females give birth on land to dozens of toadlets, each measuring just a few ...

The various Ensatina salamanders of the Pacific coast all descended from a common ancestral population. As the species spread southward from Oregon and Washington, subpopulations adapted to their ...