Abstract: We introduce WildlifeMapper (WM), a flexible model designed to detect, locate, and identify multiple species in aerial imagery. It addresses the limitations of traditional, labor-intensive ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...