The intriguing new species, spanning around four feet and one inch in length, was found to have a "matte black" coloring.

Here is a list of eight of the world's rarest animals. This critically endangered porpoise, found only in the Gulf of California, has fewer than 30 individuals remaining, making it the rarest marine ...

Six of ten species are found in Papua New Guinea, in some of the last undisturbed rain forest habitat in the world. The Matschie's tree kangaroo is endemic to the Huon Peninsula on the northeast ...

When Charles Darwin set foot here in 1835, he found several species that showed evolutionary traits endemic to individual ... few marine sanctuaries in the world where humans can come face-to ...

The spectacular cliffs of Gough and Inaccessible Islands, towering above the ocean, are free of introduced mammals and home to one of the world’s largest colonies of sea birds. Gough Island is home to ...

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 ...

Imagine a world where ancient wisdom breathes new life into fragile ecosystems, where centuries-old stories hold the secret ...

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 ...