Artist Iori Tomita produces theses colorful transparent specimens not by photo editing, but by transforming the animals themselves. ...Tomita first removes the scales and skin of fish that have been preserved in formald...

As amazing as human eyes are, other species have developed ways of seeing that will astound y...

One year ago today, a devastating earthquake shook...  ...ia State University led the search for endangered species , particularly for the La Selle grass frog, which...  ...on did unearth 23 of Haiti's 49 known native frog species — six of which hadn't been seen in 19 years. Am...  ...n from a few specimens. A...

The headline is Cracked's way of saying that human...  ...ay of saying that humans have introduced invasive species to places where they wrecked the ecosystem. Some...  ...can fit in their beaks, stealing food from other species and wreaking havoc on agriculture. And that's ju...

National Geographic posts many lists in December r...  ...on as "Yoda bat"—is just one of the roughly 200 species encountered during two scientific expeditions to...  ...he bat has yet to be formally documented as a new species , or even named. Like other fruit bats, though, it...

Vietnamese herpetologist Ngo Van Tri noticed somet...  ...g Tau. They were all female, which is odd for the species Leiolepis ngovantrii, which is what they were tho...  ...d were 60 females -of a previously unknown lizard species that reproduces without males! Still, Grismer was...

This pink-eyed katydid lives in the forest can...  ...n Papua New Guinea. It is one of the over 200 new species discovered by the Conservation International expe...  ...er Range mountains last year. See more of the new species of frogs, ants, spiders, mammals, and plants, and...

We are in the midst of the Discovery Channel's ann...  ...r of the occasion, here's a look at the strangest species of sharks, both living and extinct. 1. Sawshark...  ...ore Fiendus/Jerry Frausto) There are seven known species of sawsharks (Pristiophoriformes) that have long...  ...aximus) is the second-large...

The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University has decla...  ...Arizona State University has declared the top 10 species discovered in 2009.This one to the left is a stra...

Interspecies sex doesn't always result in offsprin...  ...a hybrid that has descended from three different species . Peter Larsen from Texas Tech University confirm...  ...237 individuals belonging to the seven fruit bat species of the Lesser Antilles. He found that A.schwartzi...  ...nome doesn’t resemble th...