Long believed to be a single, globally distributed species drifting freely across the open ocean, the bluebottle – also known ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing seven species of pangolin, often poached for their scales and meat, as ...

Gene editing’s real value is not in re-creating copies of long-extinct species like dire wolves, but instead using it to recover ones in trouble now.

A rare new spoon-nose eel species, Mystriophis caboverdensis, has been discovered in the Cabo Verde Archipelago.

The pangolin is a small, nocturnal mammal covered in scales. It is native to parts of Africa and Asia but the law allows for ...

Scientist jobs, federal funding, and even the Endangered Species Act are all in limbo. What does that mean for the future of ...

Genetic analysis reveals bluebottles are actually four distinct species, overturning two centuries of scientific belief.

Hidden for 80+ years, the Harbin skull has finally been identified as Denisovan using DNA and protein analysis.

Diving deeper, we explore some of the world's desert regions and highlight what we consider to be some of the most breathtaking landscapes.

In a city of northeastern India, a “large”-tongued creature with “fluorescent green” sides perched inside a water tank, but its hiding spot wasn’t quite hidden enough. Visiting scientists spotted the ...

Paleontologists have classified a new dinosaur species from 72 million years ago, which is a major breakthrough in dinosaur research.