The world feels ordinary until a single detail shifts your perspective. A quiet fact can linger in your thoughts, reshaping ...

Credit: Dominic Lipinski/ZSL/Cover Images Humboldt penguins, Asiatic lions, corals, Seychelles millipedes and capybaras were among the 8,000 animals being counted today as part of London Zoo’s 2026 ...

The species, so rarely observed that it was classified as endangered in 2008, had long been considered “possibly extinct” in ...

As the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) enters its 200th year as a charity, keepers at London Zoo have started counting ...

Boulenger’s backpack frog uses one of the strangest reproductive strategies in the amphibian world. Females carry fertilized ...

The clawed creature — named for its elongated forehead and flat skulls — was even labeled “possibly extinct” within Thailand, ...

A decades-old mix-up in a museum collection led scientists to mistakenly identify a Peruvian poison frog as a new species.

Despite the vast numbers of animal species already identified, the natural world is still capable of springing a few surprises. Deep in the cloud forests of the Serra do Quiriri mountain range in the ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown ...