After a decade-long search, scientists found the “rarest and most elusive amphibian” in the world on a former estate in Chile ...

While many new species are discovered in remote jungles or hidden in the depths of the sea, some are right under our noses. A ...

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In a national park of southern China, a color-changing creature with yellowy eyes sat in the damp grass and called out. The ...

In a mountainous town of western India, a “large” creature sat in a puddle outside a home and called out. Its “golden” eyes ...

The newly identified Rhacophorus medogensis, or “Xizang flying frog,” belongs to a genus of flying frogs characterized by ...

“We found that 104 out of 5203 species – 2 % – are already exposed to overheating in shaded terrestrial conditions. And a 4°C global temperature increase could push 7.5% of species beyond their ...

A three-year biological survey in Wuyishan National Park, a UNESCO natural and cultural heritage site in southeastern China, ...

Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park, in northwestern Madagascar, is filled with breathtaking shards of karst limestone. Creating a landscape of sharp, jutting rock, centuries of erosion have eaten away ...

The small brown amphibian, Phyllonastes dicaprioi ... It is one of seven new species uncovered by researchers from Ecuador’s National Institute of Biodiversity, the Catholic University of ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it ... of the current axolotl population, the species Ambystoma mexicanum — endemic of central Mexico ...