A new deep-sea species now carries a scientific name chosen by the internet, and researchers say the crowdsourced approach ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea slugs.

There isn’t a lot going on here, compared to other places. For example, a sample from the bottom of the North Sea can contain up to 20,000 animals, while a sample from the deep sea floor may only have ...

Since 2005, the global count of living mammal species has risen by 25%.

A new species of small toad has been discovered in the highlands of Guyana, Adhaerobufo wokomungensis, living in isolated ...

Even as some scientists search for signs of life beyond Earth, other researchers have been discovering new species on our own humble planet faster than ever before. From high up in the mountains to ...

A mammal that weighs about as much as a sugar cube sounds like a myth, right? Well, it might’ve been one, until a tiny new shrew species was discovered in the Ethiopian highlands. Named after an ...

University campuses are often places of learning and discovery, but rarely do researchers find a new species living right on ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

As demand for critical metals grows, scientists have taken a rare, close look at life on the deep Pacific seabed where mining ...