A 38-day expedition in the remote Alto Mayo region, where development threatens wild habitats, turned up one previously ...
The hidden creatures were found in a densely populated region known for its successful—and controversial—conservation tactics ...
Scientists have discovered the oldest known saber-toothed predator, a 270-million-year-old gorgonopsian therapsid fossil.
"I did not expect to find such clear differences in the skull shapes of giraffe – before I started looking more closely, I ...
Pangolins have the dubious distinction of being the most trafficked mammals in the world. Yet as often as they wind up in ...
Vulcan lizards live in volcanic lava fields at elevations of at least 5,600 feet, the study said. Researchers named the new ...
Scientists conducting a Conservation International survey of Peru's Alto Mayo landscape were surprised to discovery such ...
Researchers on an expedition in Peru discovered 27 animal species new to science, and some are quite interesting.
In South Florida, two Caribbean lizard species met for the first time. What followed provided some of the clearest evidence ...
They have deep ties to Hawaiian tradition with revered significance in chant, hula and lei making. They are also just really ...
While Nayler's story is wholly fictional, it is not without basis in a very real school of zoological thought, one which ...
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Martin Cheek, a conservation botanist for the Royal Botanic Gardens, about new plant and fungus species he and his colleagues discovered this year.