Bolitoglossa digitigrada, or the Rio Santa Rosa mushroom tongue salamander, was described using 10 specimens collected from ...

A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has been described ...

The rocky, inland area “is a hotspot of diversity,” he wrote in a study published Feb. 4 in the peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa. During the visits, Hoskin encountered some unfamiliar-looking ...

Eelpouts are primarily bottom-dwelling species, found in deep trenches or around hydrothermal vents in some of the planet’s most extreme environments, Thiel said. The new species were both caught at ...

Snakes are often depicted in a scary, devilish light. As a result, we often associate these reptiles with fear, whether they're poisonous or nonpoisonous snakes. However, snakes are an important ...

In the arid mountains of northern Oman, rocky caves hold pools of water.

In a succession of studies published this week and last month in the journals PeerJ and Zootaxa, researchers at Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) Toonen-Bowen (ToBo) Lab, using a ...

V. Herrera-Alva via Herrera-Alva, et al (2025) Zootaxa In 1982, researchers traveling through the Ayacucho region of Peru discovered a small amphibian in the mountain coffee groves. About an inch ...