A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

Honey badgers are not actually named for their love of honey, in fact, they raid bee hives to loot the delicious, protein-rich larva inside, which seems like an overly complicated way to get protein.

Unregulated and irresponsible wildlife photography is disturbing fragile habitats and putting species at serious risk of population decline, says the latest ZSL report ...

The backstory: The law began as Senate Bill 53, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, to ...

Researchers believe that roughly 90 percent of all plant and animal species found in Madagascar are unique to the island. Its ...

Is there an Outer SpaceX? With 3I/ATLAS set to fly by Earth in just over a week, experts continue to speculate over its origins. Harvard Scientist Avi Loeb believes that if aliens, the comet wouldn’t ...

In a new study, 79 percent of black-spotted pond frogs successfully consumed the northern giant hornet. Shinji Sugiura / Kobe University For a mouse several times its size, a sting from the “murder ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

Nieves penitentes appear as sharp, spiky protrusions reminiscent of the white hats worn by penitents during penance. Their ...

McGinley's 1956 Christmas story gets a refresh with gouache illustrations by Manders that suggest cartoons of the era. When Santa decides he's due for his "first vacation in a thousand years," a boy ...

As his many admirers will anticipate, Spirin's extraordinary art is the raison d'être of this stately looking volume. Although Beneduce (previously paired with Spirin for Philipok) writes smoothly, ...