Few can resist the appeal of an adorable animal; from diddy chameleons to cute baby cows, the world is full of species that ...

Another oarfish has made its way from the deep sea to the coast of San Diego County in Southern California. Scripps ...

Meet B. dacnis: a new 7 mm flea toad from Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest, one of the smallest vertebrates ever discovered.

A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern ...

The discovery of the dead 9½-foot-long fish follows a similar find by kayakers and snorkelers in August at La Jolla Cove ...

The world’s second-smallest vertebrate has been discovered—a tiny flea toad living on the forest floor in a Brazilian ...

Cancer prevalence rates varied widely across vertebrate species and generally increased with higher adult mass and decreased with longer gestation time, according to new results. Cancer prevalence ...

Last week, Scripps Institution of Oceanography PhD candidate Alison Laferriere found the deceased 9.5-foot specimen at ...

A rare doomsday fish (oarfish) was spotted by scientists of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at Grandview Beach in ...