Unique creatures, odd animals and new species are discovered across the planet. Some are found lurking in remote corners of the world, while others have been hiding right under our noses. Learn more ...

In 2013, a deep-sea mining ... to the stem of a sea sponge anchored on one of the valuable nodules. Amon was overwhelmed with excitement. It was likely a new species, she said.

The snails became the first animal to be listed as "endangered" due to threats to two of its three habitat locations from deep sea mining. Mindy Weisberger is an editor at Scholastic and a former ...

Sea turtle fossil. Image by Openverse ... These partnerships acknowledge that many endangered species have deep cultural significance to indigenous peoples, who often possess generations of ...

Scientists found a “large”-headed creature with spiny skin on a mountain in Nepal and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from S. Hofmann via Hofmann, Ohler, Baniya, Dubois ...

A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off ...

More than 900 known species are already extinct to date, while at least 28,500 others are listed as endangered or critically endangered by the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority.

Bring them back.” The kiwi bird is not yet extinct. Though theoretically humans may have genetic science down that we could rescue any imperiled species, from sea otters to monarch butterflies ...

Unfortunately, mining activities in these regions threaten unique deep-sea species, especially those that inhabit hydrothermal vent communities and cold-water corals. These mining activities pose ...

"People should not only love sea otters but also pay attention to why they have become an endangered species," advised one expert. May, a sea otter, jumps to reach food at Toba Aquarium in Toba ...

The Mosura fentoni, or "sea moth," is a newly discovered type of arthropod that would have lived in the deep sea more than 500 million years ago.