In the brackish waters of the world's largest alluvial island, scientists found an organism no one had ever seen before.

Every year, scientists venture into Earth’s most remote corners — from the crushing depths of ocean trenches to the misty canopies of cloud forests — and return with remarkable discoveries that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A single week in late October 2025 produced a wave of new species discoveries across five countries, all connected by camouflage ...

Researchers identified a new diatom species in a Shanghai canal after a year of studying and comparing it to others worldwide ...

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A strange creature from the deep ocean, Ferreiraella populi, was named by internet users and is now a scientifically ...

In the heart of the Middle Atlas Mountains in central Morocco, a global team of paleontologists and geologists has discovered ...

A team of biologists just discovered a new species of chiton, a marine mollusk that clings to rocks and feeds on algae. Acanthochitona feroxa is a spiky, armored sea creature that genetic analysis ...

A newly found comet is well on its way toward the sun, set to reach its nearest point come spring. The comet, dubbed C/2026 A1, was discovered by a group of French scientists at a Chilean observatory ...

A group of scientists recently announced that they had discovered a new species of dinosaur, Spinosaurus mirabilis, in the Sahara Desert Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the Human Interest team at ...

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The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...