Penguins of all sorts are beloved birds, known for their quirky appearance and endearing waddle. Macaroni penguins are ...

Regenerating body parts might sound like science fiction, but certain animals do it with precision and consistency.

Evolution has a habit of doing its weirdest work in places most of us never see—pitch-black caves, remote sinkholes, deep-sea ...

Wound management house Tetraherix is on track to list on Monday week, June 30, having shaved its initial public offer to $25 million from the targeted $35 million.

Scientists found a “leaf-toed” creature with “reddish”-gold eyes “wandering” at night in Cambodia and discovered a new ...

The speedy, plant-eating creature lived in what is now Colorado roughly 150 million years ago, and its skeleton went on ...

University of Michigan biologist Fred Kraus identified four new tree snake species in Papua New Guinea, highlighting the region's rich but understudied biodiversity. These discoveries, found on ...

For more than a century, scientists considered banded langurs, a type of reclusive, tree-dwelling monkey, to be a single species—but new research points to three separate ones.

A new species of dinosaur has been discovered.Researchers say the Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae was a dog-sized creature that ...

DNA analysis found the new species had at least 4% genetic divergence from related species. The research team included K. K. Bineesh, Sweta Beura, Moumita Das, M. Nashad and K. V. Akhilesh.

– Varish, 10, Michigan Dear Varish, If we count all the species that humans have described so far, it’s about 2 million. New species get added all the time – about 15,000 of them every year.

Discover more new species Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. → 'Large'-eyed creature found lurking in ancient Roman mine ...