Despite all the research done over the years, new animal species are being found every year, 2024 included. Here are a few of ...

In recent decades, the climate crisis has turned up the dial, deepening droughts and fueling a rise in catastrophic fire as ...

Rocha, a scientist and curator at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, thought the fish was so unusual that ...

Ibo is one of the Quirimbas Islands in the Indian Ocean off the coast of northern Mozambique, which has recently become more ...

An extra-small chipmunk found in southern New Mexico mountains will gain endangered species status and a critical habitat designation, boosting its chance at survival. The Peñasco least chipmunk lives ...

Acanthopsaron striatum and Pteropsaron flavissimum are new species of signalfish, a group of bottom-dwelling fish typically ...

Evolution has perfected the world’s sharks and rays for more than 420 million years. Unlike the ammonites or pterosaurs that ...

Researchers identified hundreds of new species in 2024, expanding our knowledge of Earth’s startling biodiversity.

The roughskin dogfish, scientifically known as Centroscymnus owstonii, is not a freshwater species. This shark is primarily ...

In 2022, the world agreed at a U.N. biodiversity summit to protect 30% of Earth’s land and water by 2030. While protected ...