Commercial trawlers off the southern coast of India caught several unfamiliar-looking eels in January 2024 and gave the specimens to scientists, Paramasivam Kodeeswaran and T. T. Ajith Kumar wrote in ...

Scientists found shiny 4-foot-long snakes in village gardens, attacking prey on Sudest Island and discovered new species: coal black tree snake, study said.

3 new species that were discovered in 2024 Each year, scientists add thousands of new plant and animal species to the scientific record. We learn about three that were added to the list.

A vampire hedgehog, a pygmy pipehorse and a "blob-headed" fish were among the hundreds of new species identified in 2024. The variety of species identified was quite eclectic and names for the new ...

A photo uploaded to popular citizen science social network iNaturalist is a snapshot of the first new genus and species of plant discovered in a US national park in almost 50 years. The wooly ...

A new fish species with a mark that resembles "The Eye of Sauron" from "The Lord of the Rings" has been named by researchers in the Amazon after a genetic analysis.

New predator dinosaur species discovered after nearly 100 years of misclassification By . Eric Todisco. Published Jan. 19, 2025, 3:06 p.m. ET. New predator dinosaur species.

The new species of newt, known as the Gaowangjie crocodile newt, was discovered in China by researchers studying at the Gaowangjie National Nature Reserve.

A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested than at present. In ...

Researchers said they named the new species after the town where it was discovered and, so far, the only place where it has been found. Carmona is in southwestern Spain, near Seville, and a ...

A cute fuzzy beetle, a sea squirt that looks like a cross between a panda and a zebra, and a piranha-like fish that's vegetarian: These are just a few of the new species formally identified in 2024.

Sometimes, nature just doesn’t know what it wants to be. There’s no greater example of that than the worm lizards, and a brand-new species of these has just been identified in a mountainous ...