Shrouded in darkness, several wrinkly “dwarf”-like creatures emerged. The camouflaged animals lurked along a mountain stream in India and caught the attention of nearby scientists. Researchers ...

At a wilderness resort in southern India, a “dwarf”-like creature scampered along the walls. The “beautiful” animal caught the attention of visiting scientists — and turned out to be a new species.

Scientists found a spiky “dwarf”-like creature climbing on rocks in Tamil Nadu and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Agarwal, Thackeray and Khandekar (2024) On the southernmost tip of ...

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 ...

The primitive fishes, which scientists call “living fossils,” represent a new taxonomic family, a rare finding. The Gollum snakehead, named after the subterranean character in Lord of the Rings, is ...