Scientists have discovered a new deep-sea species that flashes green light when disturbed inside underwater caves near Japan. Named Corallizoanthus aureus, the marine animal was found living on colonies of Pleurocorallium coral near the entrances of karst caves around Minamidaito Island. Researchers recorded its blinking light after mechanical and chemical stimulation, including during observations inside…

A creature barely three-quarters of an inch long has taken more than three decades of scientific effort to bring back to the forests of Hawaii. The O‘ahu tree snail, a species once considered lost in the wild, is slowly getting another chance after conservationists rescued the last 11 known individuals in 1991 and spent years…