The Earth is full of remarkable species, and the wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) is certainly one of them. This small ...

With a barklike shell and a head shaped like a leaf, the mata mata turtle is a master of camouflage. When an unsuspecting ...

From monster water bugs to giant wasps and flying cockroaches, these are the biggest and boldest bugs you'll find in the Lone Star State.

A new marine reptile from the Cretaceous period, Traskasaura sandrae, had an unprecedented vertical hunting style.

Eventually, researchers caught several "transparent" nudibranchs, or sea slugs, that didn't look like anything they'd seen before. They looked closer at these animals, analyzed their DNA and realized ...

Scientists found a “large”-eyed creature with “slender” fingers near a temple in India and discovered a new species, study said. Photo from A. Sayyed via Sayyed, Das, Amarasinghe, Bhattacharjee and ...

Let’s say you’re traipsing through the African bush when you come across a grove of trees. As you walk through it, something ...

Miniature Namib day geckos are considered “small-sized,” reaching about 3 inches in length, the study said. Researchers said they named the new species after the Latin word for “‘smallest’ or ‘very ...

Trawlers off southern India caught a deep-sea creature with a regrown tail later identified by scientists as a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Hundreds of feet down in the ...

Hundreds of feet down in the Arabian Sea, a 2-foot-long creature with a “large” head and regrown tail moved through the water, or tried to at least. Something enveloped it and pulled it toward ...

Hundreds of feet down in the Arabian Sea, a 2-foot-long creature with a “large” head and regrown tail moved through the water, or tried to at least. Something enveloped it and pulled it toward ...

A 29-foot long dead sea creature washed ashore in New Jersey after the carcass was spotted floating in the water near the coast days before, officials said.