If there was a mother of the year award for spiders, the ant mimicking spider would surely win.

Scientists have discovered that a widely recognized Amazonian antbird is not one, but five distinct species—including two ...

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A new species of “tiny” mammal was discovered in the mountains of northern Ethiopia. Craig, et al (2025) Journal of Vertebrate Biology The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools and ...

Scientists described several new species this past year, including a tiny marsupial, a Himalayan bat, an ancient tree, a giant manta ray, a bright blue butterfly and a fairy lantern, to name a few.

"It's a really strange animal, and the weird twist in the jaw drove us crazy trying to figure it out." ...

With a beaver’s tail, webbed feet, and a duck’s bill, platypuses are one of the world’s strangest-looking creatures. They are such an unusual mammal that the first scientists to study them believed ...

We lurched along an unpaved road in the night, walls of trees and knotted vines on either side. In the darkness lurked some of the world’s most unusual mammals, and I had come to Borneo to fulfill a ...

This newly discovered reptile ran like a greyhound - and its name is a tribute to the scientist's high school teacher.

Scientists described numerous new species this past year, from the world’s smallest otter in India to a fanged hedgehog from Southeast Asia, tree-dwelling frogs in Madagascar, and a new family of ...