Apr 9, 2014 by News Staff

An extremely rare oarfish has been captured on camera in the shallow waters of the Gulf of California. Shedd Aquarium kayakers filmed this 4-m-long Giant...

Apr 2, 2014 by News Staff

Dr Shannon Still, a biologist with Chicago Botanic Garden, has described two new species of desert poppies from the deserts of California and Arizona. Eschscholzia...

Mar 14, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists led by Dr Rachel Racicot of Yale University have described a new species of extinct porpoise that lived off the coast of what is now California...

Oct 28, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologist from Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has described an odd new hippopotamus-like animal that lived in what is now California...

Sep 20, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Two herpetologists, Dr Theodore Papenfuss of the University of California at Berkeley and Dr James Parham of California State University in Fullerton,...

May 13, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Dr Serguei Triapitsyn from the University of California Riverside’s Entomology Research Museum has identified 19 new species in the mymarid wasp genus...

Mar 20, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Geophysicists suggest that large chunks of an ancient tectonic plate known as the Farallon Plate are still present under parts of central California and...

Dec 27, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A new research published in the open access journal PLoS-ONE has revealed previously unknown differences in the food habits of saber-toothed cats and American...

Sep 27, 2012 by Natali Anderson

With a bulbous body and spiky scales, a shaggy lure dangling from its head, and foot-like fins that it uses to walk along the seafloor, the deep-sea anglerfish...