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We have only discovered 14 percent of all species on Earth

Scientists have spent centuries trying to catalog all the different species on Earth, but according to a recent study, less than 15 percent of the 8.7 million species have been discovered. Yes,...

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New spider species discovered with claws on its legs

With Google slowly but surely mapping the world in ever greater detail, it seems unlikely there’s anywhere left above water on Earth that we don’t know about or can’t at least view satellite…

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Man caught smuggling over 10% of an entire species

A day after a wildlife trade conference in Bangkok, Thailand, authorities caught a man attempting to smuggle a bag full of tortoises shipped from Madagascar. Aside from that being pretty terrible to...

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Microjewel snail discovered just as it’s about to go extinct

It’s just a few millimeters long, but this snail is a big deal to zoologists. The microjewel snails, as they have been informally dubbed, have only recently been discovered living on limestone hills […]

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