It usually takes millions of years for new species to evolve, but not for fish in one African lake.

Researchers have discovered multiple rare and new species in previously unexplored caves in Cambodia, including a flying snake and a florescent-turquoise pit viper. Those creatures were found during a ...

Cambodia’s largely unexplored limestone caves stretch for thousands of miles, are home to countless undiscovered species and host unique ecosystems, with creatures found nowhere else on Earth. Now, a ...

Somewhere between Hawai’i and Mexico, in a stretch of Pacific Ocean floor so vast and dark that more than 90% of its species don’t even have names yet, researchers just discovered 24 creatures nobody ...

A pit viper (pic), flying snake, and geckos among new species uncovered in Cambodian caves. -- Photo: Phyroum Chourn/Fauna & Flora PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): A new biodiversity survey has revealed the vast ...

In a remarkable deep-sea breakthrough, researchers have discovered 24 new species of amphipods in the Pacific’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone—including a rare, entirely new superfamily. The findings reveal ...

A newly discovered species of spider in the Ecuadorean Amazon mimics a pathogen, known as a zombie fungus, to protect itself. By Alexa Robles-Gil Alexander Bentley, a herpetologist, often leads ...

An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our modern ape ancestors. Illustration of Masripithecus moghraensis, the first ape ...