A PhD candidate recently came across a rare purple creature on the shores of La Jolla, California called a “bubble raft snail.” See it here.

A hiker trekked to an alpine lake in Utah hoping to spot some rare salamanders, and she was not disappointed. Why do they look so weird?

Video footage of a “ghost” cat offers a rare glimpse of a wild snow leopard up close. See the beautiful animal here.

A trail cam captured a very rare “possibly extinct” wild cat in a Pakistan national park. Scientists spotted a second rare wild cat, too.

What may look like a tiny orange blob on a rock is actually an exciting find—a very rare and critically endangered animal.

Footage of rare huemul deer in Patagonia has scientists excited, because the group represents a new subpopulation of the species. Watch here.

Conservationists are excited about new trail-cam video from Thailand’s Khao Luang National Park that shows a rare “fire tiger” in the forest.

Brilliant trail-cam footage shows a very rare and endangered species—the Sierra Nevada red fox. Watch it here.

A conservation organization captured extremely rare trail-cam photos of leopards in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of southeastern Bangladesh.

A very lucky man recently stumbled across not only but two rare wolverines in the road. Watch his video here.