A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

A new blind fish species, Gitchak nakana, discovered in Assam, features a unique skull structure and translucent appearance.

Scientists have discovered a new species of chiton, an ancient marine mollusk that has remained virtually unchanged for the ...

Kochi: An international team of fish taxonomists from Germany, India and Switzerland scientifically described a new genus and ...

Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be ...

Scientists in Japan confirmed a new “Milky Way” jellyfish species, discovered in coastal waters and formally named after its ...

Michael Magee discusses how the EU-funded TETTRIs project investigates methods to modernise taxonomy to improve conservation ...

Roughly 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out to identify and name every living organism on Earth. He described more than 10,000 species of plants and animals prior to his death, per ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

Scientists have discovered that a widely recognized Amazonian antbird is not one, but five distinct species—including two ...