DNA is revealing that many animals once thought to be a single species may actually be several hidden ones. But research on ...

For nearly two centuries, a small brown frog living in Southeast Asian rainforests was considered a single, well-understood ...

Researchers have identified the long-mysterious Toronto “subway deer” as a previously unknown extinct deer related to the ...

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...

A frog species known since 1838 may actually be several different species, according to a new genetic study of Southeast Asia’s “fanged frogs.” ...

A new African species is the closest known magic mushroom relative, reshaping the evolutionary history of Psilocybe cubensis.

Relative to size of plant parts, microphylla means “small-leafed,” while macrophylla says it has large leaves. The word ...

Roughly 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out to identify and name every living organism on Earth. He described more than 10,000 species of plants and animals prior to his death, per ...

Think Hollywood is big? Wait until you see how far celebrity fame reaches in nature.

Dr. Oliver Beckers, Murray State University principal investigator and associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, has made quite the discovery: a new species of fly.