Far from its home in Indonesia, a brightly colored creature moved around in an aquarium. Scientists peered into the tank, studying their pet-turned-specimen — and discovered it was a new species.

Researcher Christopher J. Bae identified Homo juluensis, a new human species that coexisted with Denisovans in Asia. A ...

A vampire hedgehog, a pygmy pipehorse and a "blob-headed" fish were among the hundreds of new species identified in 2024. The ...

In 2024, scientists described and named a staggering 190 new species, including a vegetarian piranha and a rat confined to a ...

Three of the new species — Haliclona pahua, Haliclona kahoe and Haliclona loe — are new to science, Toonen said. They were ...

When a new species is introduced into an ecosystem, it may succeed in establishing itself, or it may fail to gain a foothold ...

Nearly a quarter of the world's freshwater species are at risk of extinction due to a multitude of threats, according to new ...

Dec. 30, 2024 — A new species of black, slender moray eel has chosen the road less traveled, thriving in dim and muddy river mouths, unlike most of its marine relatives. It is found across the ...

Lophoturus sineprocessus, as the new species is named, belongs to an order of millipedes commonly found foraging under bark, ...

As night fell across a nature reserve in China, a “large” creature emerged from the forest and climbed onto an old house.

The discovery of Ichthyophis yangi, a limbless caecilian amphibian, is the second known species of its kind in the country ...

Scientists examining seawater from Blanes Bay in the north-western Mediterranean uncovered 26 new bacterial strains that ...