SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS. – Mexican scientists have discovered fossils of two new species of fish that are over 110 million years ago old, in southern Mexico in the state of Chiapas, officials said.

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and discovered they were housing species unknown to science. Between recent ...

Oceanographers from Florida’s Nova Southeastern University have found a never-before-seen species of fish from the deep waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico. The new fish, which was found at depths ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A recent analysis hosted at the University of Arizona has researchers arguing ...

California Academy of Sciences researchers and collaborators described 72 new-to-science species in 2025, including a bird, fish, plants, sea slugs, and insects found across six continents, from ocean ...