The standout find was "Loki the Sea Cucumber," a member of the genus Peniagone whose horn-like appendages recalled the Norse ...

A new species of extinct crocodile from Egypt has been discovered, sharing more than just its home with the Great Sphinx.

About 45 million years ago in northern Egypt, a long-snouted crocodile hunted in the warm, shallow sea. Its bones settled into the same limestone formation that ancient Egyptians would later carry and ...

A skull from the now extinct ‘Herugavialis cairensis’ was discovered in the 1920s—and is also missing part of its nose.

A mischievous sea cucumber and 56 other newly discovered marine species are making a splash in the South Atlantic Ocean. The ...

Last week, the description of a “new” cat species from Bolivia made headlines around the world. The tilcayo (Leopardus ...

The newly identified species include sea cucumbers, corals, and crustaceans ...

The new discoveries emphasize that scientists have a lot left to learn about insect diversity, even in areas with many ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of wild cat for the first time in more than a century, a Bolivian researcher says.

The species, called a tilcayo, is smaller than a house cat and lives in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia.

Some 99 million years ago, during the age of the dinosaurs, a tiny insect belonging to a species previously unknown to ...

Cormac Toler-Scott, lead researcher on the team at the University of British Columbia that discovered the new species, told ...