With colors that blend into the bright coral of the reef, it’s just waiting for the opportunity to use its sharp teeth to catch prey. The animal is a lizardfish, part of the fish family Synodontidae, ...

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 ...

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

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

The smallest tortoise in the world lives on South Africa’s west coast, and a button-shaped succulent endemic to a tiny area of the Northern Cape can be found nowhere else in the world. But the area’s ...

Mods have allowed fans to install new dinosaurs into Jurassic World Evolution 2, such as the Distortus Rex and Vastatosaurus Rex from King Kong.

Welcome to Red Rock Canyon State Park in Cantil, California, where 27,000 acres of Mars-like terrain erupts from the Mojave ...

For those who can’t bear to leave after just one day (and trust me, you won’t want to), Grayton Beach State Park offers some ...

In the desert of Saudi Arabia, a “cryptic” creature with a “window” in its eyelid climbed along a pile of rocks. Its ...

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 ...

Scientists found camouflaged lizards with elongated fingers, toes hidden in rocks of savanna and discovered a new species: cryptic Namib day gecko, study said.