It's not good news for the red-foot rocket frog. No other specimens have been collected in the past six decades, Grant said, ...

The new threatened species is known from only three pools of water that sit along a road into a small village in eastern ...

Indoreonectes mahadeoensis is distinguished from related species by its long whisker-like sensory organs called barbels, the shape of its dorsal fin, specifically by the number of “rays,” or segments ...

In an “artificial forest” of southwestern Turkey, a yellow-tinged creature tucked itself under a rock. Its six eyes scanned the surrounding pine needles, but it wasn’t the only one looking around.

In a stream of southern China, a “cryptic” yellow creature with a “flattened” head rested on the riverbed. Its yellow-ringed eyes scanned the surrounding water, but it wasn’t the only one looking.

In a mountain forest of southeastern China, a 1-foot-long creature with a “collar” moved along the ground. Its “secretive” nature helped it go largely unnoticed — until some keen-eyed scientists found ...

The internet is rapt with attention over a mysterious creature one woman found in her garden. What could it possibly be?

Scientists found a “banjo”-shaped creature “buried” in a riverbed in Argentina and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists via DOI: ...

At the bottom of a sinkhole in a hard-to-reach cave of western Argentina, a pale yellow creature with “long” legs climbed across a pile of bat guano. Something about it caught the attention of ...

In the mountains of Vietnam, a new blind species was found buried under a rotten long. Screengrab from Tan Van Nguyen’s Facebook post What makes a lizard, a lizard? A rough, scaly body, long claws and ...

Scientists have never even seen Facetotectans in their adult stage, so tracking the creatures related to parasitic barnacles ...

Unique creatures, odd animals and new species are being discovered across the planet. Some are found lurking in remote corners of the world, while others have been hiding right under our noses. Take a ...