New research published in the journal Nature Communications has found that chimpanzees can use gestures to coordinate actions in pursuit of a specific...
Every year, hundreds of new dinosaurs, prehistoric marine reptiles and fishes are discovered, and among them are always a few really weird or beautiful...
Meet the gorgeous and colorful new birds discovered this year: Cambodian Tailorbird, Guerrero Brush Finch, Sierra Madre Ground-Warbler, Junin Tapaculo...
Sci-News.com presents some of the best species officially described in 2013. A walking shark, a snail with semi-transparent shell, a venomous crustacean,...
Scientists from the United States have described a new sawshark species from off the Philippine Islands.
Pristiophorus lanae. Image credit: David Ebert.
Sawsharks...
Native to the forests and open savannas of Brazil and Colombia, Tapirus kabomani is the newest member of the tapir family (Tapiridae).
This is an artist’s...
Paleontologists led by Dr Jelle Zijlstra from Harvard’s Peabody Museum have discovered a new genus and species of tarsier that lived in what is modern-day...
A new study published in Nature provides chemical, isotopic and physical evidence that groundwater found more than 3,200 feet deep under the Chesapeake...
A well-preserved 6 to 4 million-year-old skull of a previously unknown species of prehistoric snow leopard from Tibet is the oldest big cat fossil ever...
Ichthyologists have discovered a new species of scalloped hammerhead shark off the South Carolina coast.
The Carolina hammerhead, Sphyrna gilberti. Image...
An international team of ornithologists led by Dr Townsend Peterson from the University of Kansas’ Biodiversity Institute has discovered a new species...
Prof Donald Stewart from Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at State University of New York has described a new species of arapaima from the...
According to a study published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, insects modify calling and mating behavior in anticipation of storms.
Curcurbit beetle,...
Two Australian biologists have described a new species of leaf-tailed gecko in the genus Saltuarius.
The Cape Melville Leaf-tailed Gecko with regenerated...
Well-preserved fossilized pollen grains found in northern Switzerland provide evidence that flowering plants may have originated in the early Triassic...
Biologists from Canada, the United States, Colombia and Guyana have described a new species and genus of electric knifefish from South America.
Akawaio...
An analysis of three-billion-year-old soils from South Africa shows that oxygen appeared in the atmosphere more than 600 million years earlier than previously...
A team of scientists from Indonesia, Denmark, France and the United States has discovered a new species and genus of rodent on the Halmahera Island in...
Dr Fred Kraus from the University of Michigan has described three new species of frogs in the genus Oreophryne from Papua New Guinea.
Oreophryne cameroni...
