Scientists found a “large”-eyed creature with “slender” fingers near a temple in India and discovered a new species, study said. Photo from A. Sayyed via Sayyed, Das, Amarasinghe, Bhattacharjee and ...

Biodiversity is in rapid decline, across the UK and globally. Butterflies are excellent for helping us understand these ...

A team of researchers has identified and described Vulcanoscaptor ninoti ("the Camp dels Ninots volcano digger"), a ...

Michigan is home to a wide range of different animals, from freshwater crustaceans, venomous snakes and 1,000-pound mammals.

Both sharks and rays have similar life history traits that make them vulnerable to overharvesting. Read more at ...

The sighting extends the species’s known range by about 75 miles northwest from its closest occurrence in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, the study said. This is also the first time the species has been ...

Dust bathing among birds and mammals is done to deter parasites, regulate body heat, and remove excess skin debris and oils.

A 225-million-year-old leg bone from Zambia is helping scientists rethink the size, diversity, and role of early dinosaurs.

The water monitor lizard, named Goose, snuck out of a home in Webster on Friday, and its whereabouts remained unknown Saturday evening, local officials said. Police conducted a limited search of the ...

Island life has given the world’s largest bats their gargantuan wingspans, which can reach nearly 2 metres 1.

Deep in the ocean's unexplored depths lurk bizarre sharks with extraordinary adaptations. From the goblin shark's slingshot ...

Researchers have discovered evidence of one of the largest dinosaur mating "dance arenas" in present-day Colorado.