In 2025, scientists discovered — or rediscovered — a number of fascinating animal and plant species, including moray eels and ...

and around a quarter of the known species in the world are endangered. These dizzying statistics make it all the more miraculous when one is rediscovered! Click through this gallery to see the ...

The last record of the beetle was at Wicken Fen in 1938 by eminent coleopterist, Frank Balfour-Brown A species of beetle has been rediscovered after a gap of 86 years. The great silver water ...

Evans, a farmer and naturalist, was clearing traps in Ashburton Lakes — about 80 miles west of Christchurch — when he noticed ...

Scientists in India rediscovered two species of frog not seen in 105 years. Photos show the “large”-eyed creatures found on a night hike. Photo from Getty / iStock Hiking through the darkened ...

However experts at the Instituto das Florestas e Conservação da Natureza (IFCN) rediscovered tiny populations of two species of the Discula lyelliana and Geomitra coronula snail. Fewer than 200 ...

The Desertas Island land snails were previously believed to be extinct as neither species had been spotted for over a century ...

In 1887, in a mistake in labelling herbarium sheets, plant species from the northern Western Ghats were misidentified. Recently a team of researchers set out to investigate the 180-year-old puzzle.