Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Zhejiang University, and Ocean ...

In a river of northeastern Brazil, an “armored” creature with “large” eyes paused to rest against a rock. The maze-like ...

In the depths of the north Pacific, long wriggling creatures were caught up in the trawl of a research vessel off the coast of Russia. The animals were brought to the surface, their elongated bodies ...

In Madagascar, Africa’s first sturgeon farm is producing caviar – and it’s made its way into some of the most prestigious ...

This evidence comes from a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull of an extinct bird, named Vegavis iaai. The fossil is ...

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

The golden coin turtles feed on small animals like fish, frogs, insects ... Commons The spider tortoise is an attractive species of the tortoise family native to the sandy coastal areas of Madagascar.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Monday ... to continue protecting grizzly bears under the Endangered Species Act. "In light of the recent transition and the need for this Administr ...

See All Key Ideas Scientists and Indigenous community members documented 27 new-to-science species in Peru’s Alto Mayo region, including four new mammals and a bizarre “blob-headed” fish ...

Arguably the most famous are the Indri lemurs, whose haunting calls ring through the forests, and chameleons of Madagascar, which can range from the tiniest, almost invisible species right up ... to ...