In the forests of Ecuador, a new species of stick insect has been discovered along trails near a forest lodge, according to a study published Nov. 12 in the peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys. Trychopeplus ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...

Footage from camera traps in the undergrowth showed small mammals, such as rodents and armadillos, seemed to avoid predators ...

She said this animal is a cousin to today's marsupials and probably looked like an opossum. "Most mammals were probably the ...

Mysterious noises under her house have worried an elderly Californian woman for weeks. The 93-year-old thought that wild ...

A now four-year-old project is beginning to move from a turtle crawl to at least a lumbering footstep as the Board of County ...

When anglers dropped trawling nets into the Pacific Ocean several miles off the east coast of Australia, they were expecting fish to be lifted back to the surface. Instead, they found a shelled animal ...

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) arrested a man who was reportedly found naked in a crawl space of a 93-year-old ...

On a rare undeveloped point of the California coast, scientists are trying to repopulate shorelines with an endangered marine snail. This type of experimental conservation is becoming more necessary.

Colors are widely used in communication within and among animal species. For example, peacocks proudly display their vibrant ...