Rediscovery of ancient velvet worm species in India after 111 years sheds light on evolutionary history and biogeographic ...

Scientists believe that 8.7 million species of animals in the world have so far been classified. And, despite their best efforts, it’s estimated that there are still 5 million species to be described.

In the garden of a hotel in northern Madagascar, a “large” creature with “slit-like” ear openings perched on a tree. Its ...

Known as Awin in Yoruba language, Icheku in Igbo and Tsamiyar kurm in the Hausa Language, Velvet Tamarind is very common in Nigeria, I remember growing up to know and relish these tropical vitamin ...

Intrigued, they caught several for a closer look and soon realized they’d found a new species: Goggia sabula, or the gravel pygmy gecko. A Goggia sabula, or gravel pygmy gecko. Photo from ...

However, who was to know she’d want to put her mind to inventing alternative rock with Lou Reed in her band, The Velvet Underground? For Tucker, music was her calling from the very beginning. By high ...