Marine biologists from Japan and Australia have described a new species of eagle ray in the genus Aetobatus.
Aetobatus narutobiei, adult male. Image credit:...
Paleontologists from the National Museums Scotland, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology...
Every year, hundreds of new dinosaurs, prehistoric marine reptiles and fishes are discovered, and among them are always a few really weird or beautiful...
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,...
Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a previously unknown species of cursorial hyena that lived in what is now Tibetan Plateau during the middle...
A 19 to 16-million-year-old fossil of a kiwi-like bird unearthed at St Bathans, New Zealand, suggests that the kiwi is not a dwarf version of a distant...
Brazilian biologists from the Federal University of Paraíba have discovered a new species of porcupine in the genus Coendou.
The Baturite porcupine, Coendou...
Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologists announced today the discovery of remains of a Neolithic settlement, mainly occupied between 8,000 and...
A tiny freshwater crab Amarinus lacustris with three eyes collected from a New Zealand river represents a unique malformation that has never been described...
Belgian biologist has described two new colorful species of frogs of the genus Pristimantis from northern South America.
Pristimantis jamescameroni. Image...
Paleontologist from Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has described an odd new hippopotamus-like animal that lived in what is now California...
Scientists have found that a marine sulfur-loving microbe discovered recently near Chilean coastal fault line can produce a new 18-membered macrolide antibiotic,...
Scientists led by Dr Ralph Harbach of Natural History Museum in London have reported a stunning discovery: a well-preserved 46-million-year-old female...
An international team of astronomers has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, to observe...
Paleontologists from Museum Victoria, Australia, and the Smithsonian Institution have rediscovered what they claim are the oldest sirenian fossils ever...
A team of paleontologists from China, the United States and Sweden has found a well-preserved fossil of ancient fish that lived in what is now China about...
An international team of ornithologists has discovered a new species of ground-warbler on Luzon Island of the Philippine archipelago.
Three ground-warbler...
