The setting sun cast long shadows across a temple in southern India. As darkness fell, a clawed creature emerged from the nearby rocks and slinked off into the night. Visiting scientists spotted the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a forest in India, several “dwarf”-like creatures scampered around a rock formation. Some of the clawed animals sat in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nestled into the woodlands of Uganda sat a “dwarf”-like creature. The pregnant animal waited out the night on a tree trunk —or ...

At a wilderness resort in southern India, a “dwarf”-like creature scampered along the walls. The “beautiful” animal caught the attention of visiting scientists — and turned out to be a new species.

Scientists found a spiky “dwarf”-like animal with “golden-red” eyes in a forest of Maharashtra and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Akshay Khandekar via Khandekar, Gaikwad, Thackeray ...

Sunlight trickled through the canopy of a forest in southern India and illuminated a decaying log. From the outside, the log looked, well, rotten. But when scientists looked closer, they found a scaly ...

Scientists found a “slender” animal living in caves of the Maharashtra mountains and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Akshay Khandekar via Khandekar, Thackeray, Agarwal, Gangalmale, ...

Whether landing on an uninhabited island or venturing into a darkened landscape, teams of scientists around the world headed into the field with a shared goal. They all wanted to find some ...

Scientists found a “dwarf”-like creature in Cameroon, kept it in terrarium and discovered a new species: Lobeke dwarf gecko, study said. Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto In a rainforest of ...

Scientists found a “dwarf”-like creature sleeping on a tree near a hotel in Madagascar and discovered a new species, a study said. Screengrab from Anjajavy le lodge’s Facebook video As darkness ...

Scientists found spiky “dwarf”-like animals in a rocky forest of Tamil Nadu and discovered two new species, a study said. Photo from Akshay Khandekar In a forest in India, several “dwarf”-like ...