During the hike, researchers found several brown lizards lying very still under fallen trees. Intrigued, they took a closer ...

Researchers, however, can have a keen eye and spot the animals even tucked in their hiding place. In the forests of Ecuador, ...

During the searches, the team found two yellow-brown salamanders on tree trunks, the study said. Researchers took a closer ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

Near a waterfall in Thailand, a pregnant creature with two “externally visible” eggs perched on a rock. Its “large” ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

It isn’t the world’s tiniest lizard, but the discovery of this odd-looking gecko by a University of Texas at Arlington ...

A team of biologists led by The University of Texas at Arlington has discovered a new tiny lizard species in the Paria ...

Researchers classified the new species within a new genus, Bathydevius, and new family, Bathydeviidae, because of its ...

Sometimes plants are so similar to each other that the methods developed by 18th century scientist Carl Linnaeus for identifying species are not enough. Completely new species of daisies have been ...

Cao Bang crocodile newts are considered “medium”-sized, reaching over 5 inches in length, the study said. They have “stout” bodies with “rough” skin and rows of “knob-like warts.” Their heads are ...

Microbes unable to break down carbohydrates belong to a newly identified family of marine bacteria. A German-American ...