The vast and largely unexplored seafloor off Alaska’s coastline produces occasional startling discoveries. The latest ...

A new species of extinct crocodile from Egypt has been discovered, sharing more than just its home with the Great Sphinx.

A new extant species in the cat family has been confirmed for the first time in over 100 years. The star of the discovery is ...

The wild cat is the size of a domestic kitten. Despite its elusive nature, there are three major threats to its existence.

Discovered in a cloud forest in Brazil, the diminutive felines are smaller than a house cat and covered in large, irregularly shaped rosettes ...

About 45 million years ago in northern Egypt, a long-snouted crocodile hunted in the warm, shallow sea. Its bones settled into the same limestone formation that ancient Egyptians would later carry and ...

Stalking through Bolivia's cloud forest in South America is a feline a bit smaller than a house cat that was unknown to science until now. Leopardus tilcayo is the first species of cat discovered in ...

The recent discovery of an extinct species of crocodile in Egypt has provided valuable information about the diversity of ...

Africa boasts up to 25% of Earth's animal and plant species. This diversity is driven by varied habitats: harsh deserts, vast ...

A new penguin species has been identified on the remote Kerguelen Islands after genetic research revealed four distinct ...

You don't need to worry about the critters coming after you, since they're only a fraction of an inch across. They join the ...

Five freshwater mussel species new to science were identified in Southern rivers. Several are rare and live in only a few ...