Earth is home to some truly magnificent creatures ... The Philippine Tarsier is one of the smallest primates in the world.

Inaccessible Island also boasts three endemic subspecies and one endemic species of land bird – the Inaccessible Rail, which is the smallest flightless bird in the world –, and some eight endemic ...

Scientists from the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, together with colleagues from Central ...

Due to pollution, climate change and overfishing, freshwater fish are thought to be the second most endangered vertebrates in the world ... of endemic species, including countless cichlids, are either ...

Within the Bird’s Head Peninsula, the Raja Ampat archipelago is the world’s coral diversity bull’s eye with 553 species. The Coral Triangle has 15 regionally endemic coral species (species found ...

Lord Howe Island supports a number of endangered endemic species or subspecies of plants and animals, for example the Lord Howe Woodhen, which at time of inscription was considered one of the world’s ...

Sea dragons are some of the most ornately camouflaged creatures ... in with the seaweed and kelp formations they live amongst. Endemic to the waters off south and east Australia, leafy sea dragons ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...