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

Divers, underwater submersibles and remotely operated vehicles found 886 marine species over a 16-month period, and they have ...

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 their webbed fingers and toes that form a Y-shape and expand into large disks ...

“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, ...

In the mountains of southern China, a pregnant creature with a “triangular” head perched in a shrub near a stream. Its “large ...

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 ...