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#1284442021-05-06
New Miniature Trap-Jaw Ant Ant Species Discovered – Named in Recognition of Gender Diversity
A newly discovered miniature trap jaw ant from the evergreen tropical forests of Ecuador bears the curious Latin name Strumigenys ayersthey, among hundreds, which are also named in honor of people, but end with -ae (after females) and -i (after males). This makes the newly described ant perhaps ...
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#1282052021-04-22
New Peruvian frog leaps into amphibian species ledger
Peruvian officials on Wednesday announced the discovery of a brand-new frog, a spotted brown critter with an unusual eye coloring and no eardrum, in a natural park in the Amazon jungle.
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#1192102018-12-27
New Species of Frog With Weird Claw Thumb Discovered
Researchers have discovered a new species of tree frog on the slopes of a flat-topped mountain in a remote region of the Ecuadorean Andes, which is considered to be one of the richest areas for biodiversity in the world.
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#1216592019-07-22
New Species of Giant Flying Squirrel Discovered in China
Weighing 3 to 4 pounds, the Mount Gaoligong flying squirrel was recently found in Yunnan province
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#1252102020-04-21
New Species of Wood Snake Found in the Western Ghats
The sun beat down mercilessly. Being in the vicinity of south India’s highest peak, in one of the coldest months – December – made no difference. After a tiring morning session of surveying for snakes and other small fauna in the high-elevation grasslands of Kerala’s Eravikulam National Park in ...
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#1196732019-01-30
New Toad Species Discovered In China
Chinese researchers in biodiversity have announced that they have identified a new species of toad in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
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#1284882021-05-07
New alpine lizard species uncovered in South Island
An intensive hunt for lizards in the South Island has led to the discovery of what could be several new skink and gecko species.The exciting finds were made this summer in remote mountain areas in Fiordland, Mount Aspiring and Nelson Lakes national parks, and the Hooker/Landsborough Wilderness A ...
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#1265452021-01-11
New bee species discovered in Israel
A new species of bee unique to the sand dunes of Israel's coastal plains has been identified and described by Alain Pauly, a taxonomist from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.
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#1301702021-08-31
New dragon-like lizard species discovered in the Tropical Andes
The Huallaga River in the Andes of central Peru extends for 1,138 km, making it the largest tributary of the Marañón River, the spinal cord of the Amazon River. This basin harbors a great variety of ecosystems, including the Peruvian Yunga ecoregion, which is considered a shelter of endemic bird ...
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#1279802021-04-08
New fish species named in honor of University of Georgia ecologists
University of Georgia ecologists Mary and Byron "Bud" Freeman are being recognized for their contributions to freshwater science in the most fitting way possible—with the naming of a newly discovered fish species in their honor.
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#1216362019-07-19
New frog species discovered
UCF student Veronica Urgiles has helped describe two new frog species discovered in Ecuador, and she named one of them after one of her professors.
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#1266532021-01-15
New frog species found in east China
A new record of frog species was found in the city of Lishui, east China's Zhejiang Province, the municipal bureau of ecology and environment said on Tuesday.
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#1222302019-09-16
New frog species from unexplored Jharkhand and Bihar brings cheer
A new species of small burrowing frog has been discovered from the Chota Nagpur plateau in Jharkhand. Scientists have named it ‘Magadha Burrowing Frog,’ (Sphaerotheca magadha) after the ancient kingdom of Magadha in the southern Bihar.
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#1317582021-11-17
New hope for ancient spider species feared extinct on Kangaroo Island
The recent discovery of two assassin spiders found living in a remnant patch of long unburnt habitat in Kangaroo Island have given new hope for the future of the ancient species after it was feared that they had become extinct.
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#1225322019-10-04
New king cricket species discovery in Costa Rica
A group of four Texas A&M Department of Entomology undergraduate students took their knowledge from the classroom and put it to use in discovering a new species of king cricket during a recent study abroad trip to Costa Rica.
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#1218582019-08-09
New monkey species discovered in rapidly-deforested area of Amazon
The marmoset was discovered in the south-west of Pará State in Brazil, Amazon’s ‘arc of deforestation’.
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#1324092022-01-11
New rainfrog species discovered in Panama, named in honor of environmental activist Greta Thunberg
In 2018, Rainforest Trust celebrated its 30th anniversary by hosting an auction offering naming rights for some new-to-science species. The funds raised at the auction benefited the conservation of the newly recognized species. It is estimated that about 100 new species are discovered each year.
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#1266752021-01-19
New snake species discovered in southeastern Turkey
Faculty members at Hakkari University in Turkey announced Tuesday the discovery of a new snake species as part of research conducted in the city's rural region.
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#1329872022-02-08
New species described in 2022
From a tree named after Leonardo DiCaprio to a bamboo-dwelling tarantula, discover some of the new species around the world that have been recently described by scientists.
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#1227392019-10-25
New species of beetle named after activist Greta Thunberg
A new species of beetle will be officially named today (Friday 25th October 2019) in honour of the environmental activist, Greta Thunberg.
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#1324452022-01-12
New species of coral discovered in Scottish waters, shedding new light on deep sea biodiversity
The discovery of a new coral species in waters off the coast of Scotland has sparked new scientific excitement about the biodiversity of the deep sea.
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#1203022019-03-12
New species of frog sheds light on major biodiversity hotspot in southern India
An expedition to an isolated hill range located in Southern India along one of the top biodiversity hotspots in the world led to the discovery of a new, ancient lineage of frog endemic to the area, according to a study published today in the journal PeerJ.
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#1252702020-04-28
New species of moths discovered in the Alps named after three famous alpinists
The discovery of new, still unnamed animal species in a well-researched European region like the Alps is always a small sensation. All the more surprising is the description of a total of three new to science species previously misidentified as long-known alpine moths.
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#1199592019-02-15
New species of non-venomous keelback snake found in Arunachal Pradesh
Recent discoveries such as a new species of burrowing eel, a new sub-subspecies of endangered hog deer and several species of frogs, geckos, diatoms and insects, have put the northeastern region of India in the limelight. This time, researchers from Help Earth and the French National Museum of N ...
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#1335442022-02-25
New species of octocoral: The jewel of Caloundra
Queensland Museum scientists have re-described a species of bright blue octocorals that can only be found on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
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#1323012022-01-04
New species of orchids discovered in Sichuan, China
During an investigation of wild orchid resources in Sichuan Province (the second National Key Protected Wild Plant Resources Survey), researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with staffs of Wolong National Nature Reserve, jointly discovered and nam ...
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#1284652021-05-06
New species of pelomedusoid turtle found in Madagascar
A team of researchers from Universität Freiburg, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Université d'Antananarivo and Stony Brook University has discovered a new species of pelomedusoid turtle in Madagascar.
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#1205022019-03-26
New species of reptile found in Nepal
One more species of reptile has been newly discovered in Nepal. Common Leopard Gecko (Eublepharis macularius), a ground-dwelling lizard, which was first found along the Kamdi biodiversity route in Banke district in course of the study about biodiversity has been named ‘Baghe Mausuli’ in Nepali. ...
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#1230672019-11-19
New species of seaweed uncovered by genetic analyses
Genetic analyses have revealed remarkably higher species diversity in common red seaweed than previously assumed. It was thought that there were only five related species of the Gloiopeltis genus (known as 'funori' in Japanese) worldwide. However, genetic analyses of historic and modern specimen ...
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#1206432019-04-04
New species of skink from Angola has waited over 70 years to be described
Researchers have finally described a new species of skink from Angola, specimens of which have lurked on museum shelves for more than 70 years.
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#1202852019-03-11
New species of stiletto snake capable of sideways strikes discovered in West Africa
Following a series of recent surveys in north-western Liberia and south-eastern Guinea, an international team of researchers found three stiletto snakes which were later identified as a species previously unknown to science.
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#1192782019-01-07
New species of tree frog from Ecuador has a mysterious claw
A team of biologists surveying remote parts of the Cordillera del Cóndor (Condor mountain range) in Ecuador’s eastern Andes have described a species of tree frog that’s new to science.
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#1228722019-11-06
New toads named from a Sumatran biodiversity trove that’s under threat
In 2017, a group of researchers working in Indonesia announced they had identified a new genus of tree-dwelling toads living in forests and caves on the mountaintops of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island.
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#1263732020-12-21
New tree-spider crab species with purple patches described from Kerala’s mangroves
In a serendipitous discovery, researchers have described a tiny, cryptic species of tree-spider crab found climbing the mangrove trees of Kasargod district in the southern state of Kerala.
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#1296192021-07-22
New ‘weird looking’ shark species from Indian Ocean discovered
In 2012 and 2014, researchers from the Pacific Shark Research Center in the US conducted surveys along the Southwest Indian Ridge or the underwater mountain system that bisects the ocean between Africa and Antarctica. While studying the seamounts situated to the south of Madagascar, the team col ...
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#1221682019-09-10
Newly Identified Electric Eel Species Is Most Shocking Animal Ever
Genetic data has revealed several distinct electric eel species living throughout South America, including the most shocking eel (and animal) discovered yet.
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#1323272022-01-06
Newly identified tree species named in honour of Leonardo DiCaprio
A tropical, evergreen tree from Cameroon, the first plant species to be named as new to science in 2022, has officially been labelled Uvariopsis dicaprio today in honour of the actor Leonardo DiCaprio. It adds to the list of the strange and spectacular plants that scientists have named in the pa ...
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#1333992022-02-21
One fish, two fish: New goby species from the Philippines just dropped
Serendipity underlies some of the greatest scientific discoveries. And it was certainly at play in 2015 when a team of biologists stopped off to relax at a popular waterfall on the Philippine island of Palawan after spending a long day surveying nearby streams to document the island’s freshwater ...
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#1255962020-11-06
P.E.I. National Park announces exciting new bat discovery
Six years of recording and analyzing the sounds made by bats in P.E.I. National Park has revealed more biodiversity in the park than was previously suspected. The park first set up acoustic detectors, which record the echolocation calls bats use to hunt for food, in 2015 and has continued every ...
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#1187082018-10-29
Photos of the new species of dragon lizards discovered in the Western Ghats
The Western Ghats have revealed two new genera of dragon lizards from the family Agamidae – Monilesauras and Microauris. Using a combination of extensive field surveys, detailed taxonomic analyses and genetic tools, researchers have rearranged British-era taxonomy to expand extant knowledge of t ...
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#1319772021-11-29
Plants and animals of Noongar Nation break new ground in Indigenous knowledge tool
The Noongar Boodjar plant and animal encyclopaedia will link Indigenous species names with western scientific (both Latin and Common) names, as well as ancestral ecological and cultural knowledge chosen to be shared by local communities across more than 90 plant and animal species.
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#1228062019-10-30
Researcher goes to bat, discovers new winged species
The Bayou City is home to some impressive bat colonies, but University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) researcher Dr. Amy Baird's latest discovery spreads its wings more than 2,000 miles away.
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#1233482019-12-09
Researchers find over 40 new species of fish in one lake
There are many thousands of species of fish inhabiting the world's waters. Recently, researchers have uncovered around 40 new species in a lake in Africa. The number is impressive, but the investigators explain how these new varieties came to be.
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#1203462019-03-13
Scientists Discover New Stiletto Snake Species in Africa
The stiletto snakes, also known as burrowing asps, are members of Atractaspis, a genus with over 20 validly described species.These burrowing and venomous snakes are famous for their unique skull anatomy and venom delivery system, allowing them to attack and stab sideways with a fang sticking ou ...
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#1268562021-02-03
Scientists Just Found a New Kind of Whale
Genetic analysis and a close examination of the skulls from a group of baleen whales in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico have revealed that they are a new species.
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#1288822021-05-27
Scientists discover new species of African Violet plant from Mizoram
A group of botanists from the Bhopal-based Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) have recently discovered a new species of plant belonging to the African Violets family from Mizoram and adjacent areas in Myanmar.
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#1326462022-01-19
Scientists discover tarantula-killing worms: New parasite named after actor Jeff Daniels
Scientists have named a newly discovered species of worm that kills tarantulas after American actor, musician and producer Jeff Daniels, a distinction no other entertainer can claim.
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#1250762020-04-13
Scientists discover ‘extremely unexpected’ gecko species and immediately warn it is at threat of extinction from humans
A new species of bent-toed gecko has been discovered by biologists on an isolated mountain in northern Cambodia. Describing the find as “extremely unexpected”, scientists have warned the species could be lost as suddenly as it was detected because of the gold mining which threatens the small liz ...
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#1243832020-02-26
Scientists discovered the first animal that doesn't need oxygen to live. It's changing the definition of what an animal can be
You'd think all animals would need oxygen to live, right? Wrong. Researchers just discovered a unique organism that doesn't need to breathe. Instead, the tiny parasite lives in salmon tissue and evolved so that it doesn't need oxygen to produce energy.
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#1296642021-07-23
Scientists identify five new plant species in Bolivia
The species are all part of the genus Jacquemontia, which are twining or trailing plants with pretty blue flowers. With rapid biodiversity loss taking place across South America and worldwide, identifying plant species is a vital step towards protecting them.