The latest addition is the Marine Organizational Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name ...

A new species of carnivorous caterpillar calls a counterintuitive place home: a spider’s lair. The species, dubbed the “bone collector” by the University of Hawaii scientists who discovered ...

At the meeting, Maussan stressed to the Mexican Congress that he had discovered a "new species" that was missing two important human body parts—lungs and ribs. Newsweek reached out to Maussan ...

The study combines data from two previously published papers that measured body-size and wing-length changes in a total of more than 86,000 bird specimens over four decades in North and South America.

Scientists aboard a research vessel near Antarctica pulled their nets out of the chilly ocean water. Among their catch, they found a 20-armed creature with a distinctive body shape. It’s a new ...

At a fossil deposit in Yoho National Park, a 500-million-year-old species had a “taco-shaped” body, researchers said. Sneha Chandrashekar via Unsplash During the Cambrian Explosion ...

A new species ... a more than two-decade study of the butterflies and moths of Hawaii. First, he said, they came across strange silk cases decorated with the minuscule body parts of insects ...