In a village of southwestern India, a child peered into a water tank and noticed a “translucent” creature with visible bones. She didn’t know it at the time, but she’d just discovered a new species.

Shiva, seated in meditation, blue-skinned and calm, yet holding a power so immense it could destroy the universe with a glance. His third eye is legend: a symbol of awakening, insight, and destruction ...

On an island in Papua New Guinea, a 3-foot-long creature with a black tongue made itself at home in a village garden — or it tried to, at least. Locals spotted the “smooth” animal and caught it. They ...

Characidium dumonti lives among the rocks and pebbles at the bottom of the fast-flowing streams in the national park, ...

In the United States astro-tourists can visit Prineville Reservoir Dark Sky Park on the edge of the High Desert region of ...