New finds include a snake from the Indian Himalayas named after actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio and the piranha ...

A vegetarian piranha from the Amazon and a flying dinosaur found on the Isle of Skye are among the species previously unknown ...

The new species include 32 fishes, 17 leaf bugs, 15 planthoppers, 14 worms, 12 skinks, 11 fossil gastropods, nine plants, ...

The result is a growing list of threatened and endangered species, prompting conservation organizations and federal and state ... Feeding on grassland and ground-dwelling insects such as ticks, ...

There are at least 300,000 species of invertebrate in Australia. Of these, two-thirds are unknown to western science.

Our best estimate is that 9,111 invertebrate species have become extinct in Australia since 1788. This dwarfs the current ...

on Thursday added five species that it deems threatened or endangered ... It reassessed the status of seven others. The list is a snapshot of Canada's rich biodiversity — and the complex ...

Native to Japan and Asia, the spiders have slowly spread across parts of the Southeast including South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Researchers are investigating whether this species may ...

Other examples include maternal cannibalism in hamsters and sexual cannibalism in praying mantises and black widow spiders. Cannibalism, the act of consuming members of one's own species ...

A new tarantula species, Trichopelma grande, has been discovered in western Cuba, captivating researchers with its impressive size and distinctive features. The spider is the largest and hairiest ...

Scientists discover new species of human ancestors, Homo juluensis. Credit: Adam Fagen, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A team of researchers has identified a new human species that vanished approximately 200,000 ...

(Louise Leakey via AP) Scientists study fossil footprints for clues about co-existing species of early human ancestors at the excavation site on the eastern side of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, in ...