While trekking through an open grassland atop a mountain range in Morocco, researchers spotted a small, shiny creature scurrying through the soil. They collected the creature, and after analysis they ...

Scientists visiting a woodland area of Mexico in 1965 captured a delicate creature with colorfully patterned wings. The animal turned out to be a new species — but it would take almost 60 years, a ...

While exploring a slope of the Andes mountains in northern Chile, Héctor A. Vargas spotted larvae living on two types of flowers. Vargas, a scientist, collected the larvae and brought them to a nearby ...

Researchers have discovered a new shark species that has been named Aquilolamna milarcae. The shark swam in the oceans during the Late Cretaceous about 93 million years ago. Scientists discovered a ...

Eleanor Lutz is the 22-year-old Seattle-based designer behind Spaceship Earth, an online map that transforms Earth into the Death Star. But Lutz isn’t just a sci-fi nerd. She’s also got a degree in ...

Oct. 24 (UPI) --England's Bristol Zoo is asking for the public's help to identify a "mysterious winged and horned creature" caught on a trail camera in a woodland area. The zoo said the trail camera ...

A “very rare” species of bat was discovered on Corsica, a French island in the Mediterranean Sea, researchers said. Photo from Dusan Veverkolog, UnSplash The French island of Corsica is perhaps best ...

When farmers in Mexico found 35 of their sheep slaughtered with significant claw and tooth marks around their necks, they had one creature to blame – the legendary chupacabra. One man tending to the ...

Scientists found an animal with patterned wings in the woodlands of Mexico and discovered a new species, named by eighth graders in Kansas, a study said. Photo shows a representative area. Photo from ...