A decades-old mix-up in a museum collection led scientists to mistakenly identify a Peruvian poison frog as a new species.

Researchers have identified over 70 new species, from ancient dinosaurs to living mammals and insects preserved in amber ...

For decades, the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) played a surprising and essential role in human medicine. Native to the ...

In the late 1980s, something began to go wrong in places that were supposed to be safe. Protected cloud forests, buffered ...

From a butterfly shaped by 40,000 years of isolation to creatures 1,400 feet below the sea, scientists uncovered thousands of ...

One that caught attention from many was a type of sea mollusk that washed ashore on South Padre Island in late May.

New species are being discovered at a faster rate than ever—more than 16,000 every year—and the trend shows no sign of ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

Honey badgers are not actually named for their love of honey, in fact, they raid bee hives to loot the delicious, protein-rich larva inside, which seems like an overly complicated way to get protein.

The mapping project will help to identify important habitat for wildlife such as moose and caribou. Knowing where these climate change refugia are allows land-use planners and Indigenous communities ...

Unregulated and irresponsible wildlife photography is disturbing fragile habitats and putting species at serious risk of ...