Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the Cretaceous forests of ancient Madagascar, one frog ...

Scientists found a creature with “burly” fingers in the mountains of a nature reserve in China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Liu, Li, Cheng, Wei, Wang and Cheng (2025) On a ...

Scientists found a “horned” creature with “diamond-shaped” pupils in a nature reserve in China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Zhong-Bin Yu via Wu, Zuo, Yang, Zhang, Duan, ...

Scientists found a “horned” creature with “large” “reddish” eyes in a “very cold” stream in China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Wang, Chen, Chen, Huang, Peng, Peng, Gao, Chen ...

The Binchuan horned frog was found in a mountaintop village in China living near an artificial reservoir, according to a study. Zhang, Z., Liu, Y., Wu, Y., Xie, J ...

On a humid night in the mountains of southern China, a “slender”-limbed creature with “burly” fingers emerged from its hiding place and perched on some “moist rocks” near a stream. Its “remote” home ...

In a mountain forest of central China, a “horned” creature perched in a “very cold” stream and called out. Its “large” “reddish” eyes scanned the nearby stones, but it wasn’t the only one looking ...