The people’s mollusc: Scientists name strange deep-sea creature after thousands offer suggestions online - Eleven different online participants independently suggested the same successful name ...

LONDON -- Researchers in China claim they have identified a new species of gibbon in the remote forests along its border with Burma - and have named it after Star Wars character Luke Skywalker.

Scientists have identified a previously unknown dragonfly species in Kerala’s agricultural lands. Named as Lyriothemis ...

This week, researchers discovered a new species of daddy longlegs. They named it Iandumoema smeagol, taking the latter half of the name from the character in the Lord of the Rings books and movies.

Utah’s Great Salt Lake has just yielded a new resident, a microscopic animal that no one had ever documented there before. The discovery of a tiny roundworm, formally described as a new species, is ...