The new species of African house snake is known from only one specimen, a roughly 10-inch long juvenile snake caught “in high ...

At night in a cave of southern Thailand, a 2-foot-long creature with “blade-shaped” teeth searched for its next meal.

As night fell across Cambodia, a “slender” creature with a colorful tail emerged and perched on a rock. Its “large” eyes ...

Bathynomus vaderi, a newly discovered giant isopod in Vietnam, is now a popular delicacy and highlights the urgent need to ...

A new species of pangolin has been discovered after Indian police confiscated a number of pangolins from wildlife trackers in ...

In a murky river of South Africa, a “large”-headed creature swam through the water — or tried to — but something pulled it ...

Instead, the “dragons” hidden in the rocky outcroppings of the forest are much smaller — and covered in legs. Researchers with the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources at the Vietnam Academy ...

Bọ biển, or “sea bugs,” are large isopods that have come to rival lobsters in “quality of the flesh” as a sought-after ...

These popular aquarium pets have now been officially classified as their own species: Cherax pulverulentus, or the dusty ...

In the highlands of southern Brazil sat an “aggressive” creature covered in scars and visibly infected by parasites.

Three of the new species — Haliclona pahua, Haliclona kahoe and Haliclona loe — are new to science, Toonen said. They were ...

In some cases, it can take decades of searching through treacherous conditions for scientists to discover these creatures for the very first time. In other cases, however, the new species are ...