Sunlight filtered through the trees of a rainforest in northern Peru and illuminated an “iridescent” creature. Its “golden” ...

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With the discovery of the species, scientists can now properly develop a timeline surrounding the arrival of the fish in ...

One morning in 2024, Armando Schlindwein found an orange-bearded monkey on the roof of his farmhouse on the edge of the ...

For decades, paleontologists have believed that the very first dinosaurs evolved in the southern parts of the ancient ...

The U.S.-based Rainforest Action Network (RAN) used high-resolution satellite imagery to identify 6,368 acres of protected ...

The new leech species has three jaws, five pairs of eyes aligned in a U-shape, a disc-shaped “caudal sucker” for attachment, ...

Researchers collected images of 445 different species and the data could redefine how some animals are classified.

Two tiny sea creatures with translucent bodies found on the California coast are both new species. They’re sea slugs, part of ...

Many native plants are missing from habitats where they should thrive – even in wilder areas. Why? Human actions such as ...