A butterfly misidentified for years as Common sailer was revealed as Creamy sailer in Chandigarh; a Kalij pheasant's strange presence raises concerns of illegal captivity.

A new species, Breviceps batrachophiliorum, also known as the Boston Rain Frog, has been discovered in South Africa, expanding the variety of African rain frogs.

A genus of around 20 burrowing frog species found mostly in South Africa is famous for its members' short limbs, flat, angry-looking faces, and rounded “golf-ball” like bodies. Now, this collection of ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some of the oldest direct evidence of parasitic relationships between fungi ...

Litoria tylerantiqua, a 55-million-year-old fossil, is Australia’s oldest known tree frog. It shifts the timeline for frog evolution and underscores the resilience of frogs across mass extinction ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ago in Canada reveal.

A "very odd" sea creature fossil from Vancouver Island has been officially identified as a new species, Traskasaura sandrae.

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs – some of the most famous in North America – have just been formally identified as belonging to a “very odd” new genus of the sea monster ...

Scientists have figured out how extinct giant ground sloths got so big and where it all went wrong by Jerald Pinson, Florida Museum of Natural History ...

An "aquamarine" poison dart frog. Image via Koch et al., 2025, PLOS One (CC-BY 4.0) Poison dart frogs are small but hugely significant in the greater food web of the Amazon. By eating ants, mites, and ...

A snail named after painter Pablo Picasso is one of many species named after artists, but some researchers question whether species should be named after people at all.

Life Exquisite new-to-science frog species has golden legs and odd habits A newly described poison dart frog, which is about the size of a thumbnail, has been found in the forests of the Juruá ...