Utah’s Great Salt Lake has long been cast as a nearly lifeless expanse, a place where brine shrimp and flies scrape by in water that can be up to 8% saltier than the ocean. That story has just been ...

But beyond these well-known species lies a fascinating world of rare and endemic animals found only within the country’s ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A rare and striking ocean creature nicknamed the “blue dragon” is washing up on parts of the Texas coast, and researchers say beachgoers should admire it from a distance. The ...

Scientists have discovered a flying snake, along with some other never-before-seen species, in western Cambodian caves. During a survey in Battambang province, researchers explored more than 60 caves ...

Sometimes we get nice things — and marsupials get a miraculous, genetically engineered resurrection. Bandicoots, a group of tiny nocturnal creatures once declared extinct in Australia, are back from ...