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 ...

Here are six of the new species, including a furry hedgehog named after vampires, an almost invisible dragon lizard and a leafless orchid on the verge of extinction. The furry member of the ...

During the colder months hedgehogs look for quiet, undisturbed places to spend the winter such as piles of leaves and garden ...

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...