Sometimes, a creature unknown to science hides in plain sight without anyone realizing its significance. In the case of one ...
A newly identified shrew from the Ethiopian highlands weighs just 3 grams, making it one of the smallest mammals ever ...
As demand for critical metals grows, scientists have taken a rare, close look at life on the deep Pacific seabed where mining ...
A 400-million-year-old jawed fish fossil found in the Arctic, Romundina gagnieri, could be a key link in the evolution of ...
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From cat declawing bans to crackdowns on extreme farm confinement, here are the laws that have recently come into place.
Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea slugs.
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.
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 ...