The easiest way to tell a tarantula from a mouse spider? One is a fraction of the size of the other, and moves at a much ...

Oyster mushrooms grow in a cluster of small fungal discs that each fan out at the end of a thick, white stem. Within the ...

California’s beaches may be some of the most photographed and well-documented coastlines in the world, but just miles from the shore, scientists are still finding creatures never seen by humans.

In the late 19th century, American bullfrogs were brought to California for a seemingly straightforward purpose: to supply ...

All turtles are able to snap, but not every turtle is a snapping turtle. You can identify the two most common species by ...

A bizarre tadpole-shaped creature is lighting up California’s deep ocean. Scientists say it may be a species never formally ...

California's beaches may be some of the most photographed and well-documented coastlines in the world, but just miles from ...

Comedian George Lopez jokes that every Mexican family has a haunted room somewhere on the premises — “the cucuy room.” It’s ...

Boreal toads breed — and spread disease — in beaver ponds in northwest Wyoming. Researchers are studying what draws toads to ...

"Species that are already suffering from fragmented populations or declining due to other factors may be less able to cope ...