Scientists studying an amber collection from the Goethe National Museum in the German town of Weimar have made a remarkable ...

Off the coast of Papua New Guinea, a "dwarf"-like sea creature with spotted eyes swam around a reef. It darted into a nearby coral as a shadowy figure approached, but its hiding spot wasn't quite ...

Families braved cold temperatures and snowy weather to learn about Bigfoot, the Lake Erie Monster and other legendary ...

Scientists found “long”-fingered creatures hiding near a mountain trail in China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Xu, Gong, Nguyen, Deng, Bragin, Weng, Zhang, Poyarkov and Peng ...

In the hills of southern India, a “slender” creature climbed several feet off the ground and tucked itself under some tree bark. But the hiding place — and its “quick” color changes — wasn’t enough to ...

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with David Bottjer, Earth Sciences professor with the University of Southern California, about the discovery in China of what's thought to be one of the earliest fossils of a ...

One ocean-dwelling creature found in tropical waters is known to be able to reverse its own life cycle, cheating death. The jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, was first discovered in 1883, but it was ...

From frogs to salamanders to the axolotl, amphibians are the most threatened animal group in the world. Pollution, habitat loss and a pandemic-level fungus have brought countless species to the brink ...

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Scientists found a “slender” creature, “quick” to change its color, on a tree in India and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Bhupathi, Ray, Narayana, Karuthapandi, Jaiswal, Kar and ...