A clever tropical fish has flipped how biologists are thinking about memory, brains and visual recognition in the animal ...

Mushrooms that appear identical turn out to be different species, correcting decades of errors in biodiversity records.

The AMNH identifies 70 new species in 2025 after reviewing decades of collections, while their habitats disappear without ...

The U.S. Interior Department announced Wednesday it has removed the Apache trout — Arizona’s official state fish — from the list of endangered and threatened species. The delisting shows the federal ...

Academy researchers identified 72 species new to science in 2025, including the newly recognized Galápagos lava heron, a shy deep-sea fish, and a rare sunflower relative found in a U.S. national park.

A cavity in the middle of the rockhead poacher’s skull might be used like a maraca to produce sound, new research suggests.

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is ...

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An odd species has been discovered under rare circumstances in the depths of the San Antón water mine in Seville province Spain. The tiny isopod crustacean was named the Carmona isopod (Baeticoniscus ...

University of Victoria (UVic) biologists have discovered that even closely related fish species make unique and distinctive sounds and determined that it's possible to differentiate between the sounds ...

More than 35,000 species of fish are believed to make sounds, but less than 3 percent of species have been recorded. A new audio and visual recording device allowed scientists to identify the most ...