Whether landing on an uninhabited island or venturing into a darkened landscape, teams of scientists around the world headed into the field with a shared goal. They all wanted to find some ...

Scientists found a “pygmy” creature with “leaf”-like toes in rocky a crevice of South Africa and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Courtney Hundermark via Conradie, Hundermark, Kemp ...

Sunlight trickled through the canopy of a forest in southern India and illuminated a decaying log. From the outside, the log looked, well, rotten. But when scientists looked closer, they found a scaly ...

Scientists found a spiky “dwarf”-like animal with “golden-red” eyes in a forest of Maharashtra and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Akshay Khandekar via Khandekar, Gaikwad, Thackeray ...

Scientists found a “dwarf”-like creature in Cameroon, kept it in terrarium and discovered a new species: Lobeke dwarf gecko, study said. Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto In a rainforest of ...

On a cold, windy evening, a “pygmy” creature with “leaf”-like toes emerged from its hiding place in a remote region of South Africa. Undeterred by the weather, it scampered across the rocks. Visiting ...