A vampire hedgehog, a pygmy pipehorse and a "blob-headed" fish were among the hundreds of new species identified in 2024. The ...

Another of 2024's mysterious plant discoveries made by researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, was a species of rattan ...

An extraordinary 234 new species were described by scientists in the Greater Mekong region of South-East Asia in 2023. The finds, announced in a report from conservation organisation WWF, include 173 ...

"I vont to spike your neck" is what you might imagine a new species identified as a vampire hedgehog might say if you met it on a dark night... although apart from having razor sharp fangs the ...

Hedgehogs, dormice and bats are the only species that fully hibernate during the chilly months. While this allows them to ...

Vampire hedgehog? 234 new species found in the Greater Mekong area. (photo credit: Alexei V. Abramov, WWF) Researchers found 234 new species in Southeast Asia's Greater Mekong region in 2023 ...

“Although these species were just described by science ... of glamorous eyelashes around its eyes; and a soft-furred hedgehog that makes up for its lack of pointy spines with formidable incisors ...

Hedgehogs, dormice and bats are the only species in the UK that fully hibernate, with the little creatures building up fat ...

Geneticists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries discovered that two distinct populations of killer whale in the North Pacific Ocean are separate species. Meanwhile ...