A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

“Living fossil” is often misused, but chitons really haven’t changed much in about 300 million years.

A new species of chiton — a tiny, armored marine mollusk from a lineage roughly 500 million years old — has been identified ...

The remains of the fearsome Spinosaurus mirabilis have been waiting for eons to be discovered in a Sahara Desert fossil bed.

Scientists have discovered Spinosaurus mirabilis, a massive "hell heron" dinosaur that rivaled T. rex and hunted fish in ...

Scientists estimate we’ve identified somewhere around one-tenth of all species on Earth — meaning for every species with a name, roughly nine more are waiting in an unsampled river or an unexplored ...

Dr. Oliver Beckers, Murray State University principal investigator and associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, has made quite the discovery: a new species of fly.

“ Tanyka is a little like a platypus, in the sense that it was a member of the stem tetrapod lineage that remained even after newer, more modern tetrapods evolved,” Jason says. “It was a living fossil ...

When a new species is discovered, it's tempting to imagine an adventure novel, said Chan Kin Onn of Michigan State University. "Most people have this image of an intrepid explorer braving an isolated ...

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience researchers have identified 10 new ...

Ten new species. Seven new genera. In Hawaiʻi, scientists are still finding animals no one knew existed. Some shimmer with almost iridescent color. One from Hawaiʻi Island may be the largest in ...

A newly confirmed bacterial species, Rickettsia finnyi, has been identified in dogs with symptoms resembling Rocky Mountain spotted fever.