An international team of researchers has described a new species of miniaturized gecko in the genus Pseudogonatodes from the Peninsula de Paria in northeastern...
Paleontologists have unearthed a 20-million-year-old fossilized skeleton of a species of the dugongid sirenian mammal Culebratherium with shark and crocodylian...
The nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) is actually four different species, including a previously undescribed species endemic to the Guiana Shield,...
An international team of herpetologists led by New Mexico Highlands University and University of Queensland scientists has described a cryptic new species...
A team of ornithologists from the American Bird Conservancy and Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology has captured the first-ever clear images and...
In a new study of the genetic history of the pre-contact Caribbean, researchers analyzed genome-wide DNA data from 174 ancient individuals who lived in...
An international team of paleontologists has unearthed several well-preserved shells and the first known jaw specimen of Stupendemys geographicus, a species...
Dr. Philip Riris from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London and colleagues have mapped a series of rock engravings (petroglyphs), some...
An international team of arachnologists has discovered and described three new species of Neotropical ‘club-tailed’ scorpions: Ischnotelson peruassu...
Three new species of the ant genus Sericomyrmex have been discovered in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Sericomyrmex radioheadi, worker....
Speakers of the Nheengatú language talk about time of day by pointing at where the Sun would be in the sky at that particular time, according to a study...
An international team of entomologists has described two new species of satyrid butterflies from the lowland tropical forests of the upper Amazon basin,...
An international group of ornithologists led by Dr Jorge Enrique Avendaño of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá has described a new species of tapaculo...
Paleontologist Dr Oliver Rauhut of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, and his colleagues have described a new dinosaur genus and species...
Paleontologists from Switzerland and the United Kingdom have discovered a new genus and species of plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Venezuela...
Biologists have announced the discovery of an extraordinary new species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae.
Beautiful inflorescence of Coespeletia...
Belgian biologist has described two new colorful species of frogs of the genus Pristimantis from northern South America.
Pristimantis jamescameroni. Image...
An international group of paleontologists writing in the journal Nature Communications has described two new prehistoric species of crocodile from fossils...
