In a darkened cave in Brazil, a clawed creature climbed across rocks. A beam of light swept across the cavern and landed on the spiny animal. Spelunking scientists looked at the illuminated animal — ...

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 ...

Under the cover of darkness, a clawed creature slinked through the canopy of trees in southern Thailand. The elusive animal had gone largely undetected — but not for much longer. A team of researchers ...

Around the world, animals remain hidden and undiscovered in thick forests, rocky rivers and the depths of the ocean. In some cases, it can take decades of searching through treacherous conditions for ...

Scientists found a nocturnal clawed animal lurking near a temple in the forest of Tamil Nadu and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Ishan Agarwal via Khandekar, Thackeray and Agarwal ...

Scientists found a hibernating creature with “sharp” claws on a mountain in Vietnam and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Bragin et al. (2025) As temperatures dropped on a mountain in ...

Scientists found an armless creature with clawed toes burrowing in a remote area of Queensland, Australia, and discovered a new species, a study said. Screengrab from @scottmacor's Instagram In a ...

Scientists found a clawed animal with “sucker-like” genitalia lurking in a cave in Brazil and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Souza, Reis-Venâncio, Torres and Ferreira (2024), ...

In a remote region of northern Australia, an armless creature writhed deeper into the dirt and pushed itself along with its clawed toes. But something turned its world upside down, wrenching it toward ...