240 Million-Year-Old Marine Predator Species With Fang-Like Teeth Uncovered in China
About 240 million years ago, when reptiles ruled the ocean, a small lizard-like predator floated near the bottom of the edges in shallow water, picking…
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Evolved to Strike Terror: Paleontologists Identify New Species of Mosasaur
Ancient lizard’s long, crocodile-like snout suggests it carved out a niche in a competitive marine ecosystem. A new species of an ancient marine reptile evolved…
New Species Found in the Hottest Place on Earth
A new species of freshwater Crustacea has been discovered during an expedition of the desert Lut, known as the hottest place on Earth. The newly…
New Species of Cretaceous Brittle Star Discovered in Stroke of Luck – Named in Honor of Nightwish Vocalist
New fossil species belongs to a group of extant starfish-like creatures living in the deep sea today. Paleontologists from the Natural History Museums in Luxembourg…
“Seriously Strange” New Extinct Family of Giant Wombat Relatives Discovered in Australian Desert
A giant marsupial that roamed prehistoric Australia 25 million years ago is so different from its wombat cousins that scientists have had to create a…
18 New Species of Aquatic Beetle in South America Discovered by Undergraduate Student
It would be striking for a seasoned entomologist with decades of fieldwork to discover such a large number of species unknown to science. But for…
Xenophyophores: Four Freaky New Species of Giant Single-Celled Organisms Discovered on Pacific Seafloor
Two new genera and four new species of giant, single-celled xenophyophores (protozoans belonging to a group called the foraminifera) were discovered in the deep Pacific…
New Diamond Frog From Northern Madagascar – “As Soon as I Saw This Frog, I Knew It Was a New Species!”
Despite the active ongoing taxonomic progress on Madagascar’s frogs, the amphibian inventory of this hyper-diverse island is still very far from being complete. The known…
Fossil Discovered in the 1960s Finally Reveals Its Secrets: New Plant Species That Lived About 365 Million Years Ago
Antoine Champreux, a Ph.D. student in the Global Ecology Lab at Flinders University, has cataloged the discovery of the new fern-like plant species as part…
A Tale of Two Iguanas: New Species Found Hiding in Plain Sight
This is the tale of two iguanas. Or five iguanas and counting, if you prefer. Bear with us, because this isn’t straightforward. For a long…
Bizarre New Parasitic Species Discovered… on Twitter
While many of us use social media to be tickled silly by cat videos or wowed by delectable cakes, others use them to discover new…
Four New Bat Species Discovered — Cousins of the Suspected COVID-19 Bats
Bats play a huge but poorly understood role in humans’ lives — they pollinate our crops, eat disease-carrying mosquitos, and carry diseases themselves. But we…
New Green Pit Viper From India Named After Salazar Slytherin From Harry Potter
A new green pit viper species of the genus Trimeresurus was discovered during the herpetological expedition to Arunachal Pradesh in India, part of the Himalayan…
New Species of Bent-Toed Gecko Discovered in Cambodia
A new species of bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus phnomchiensis) has been described from Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary by Wild Earth Allies Biologist Thy Neang in…
Incredible New Species Discovered in Abyssal Deep Sea Canyons Off Ningaloo
An estimated 150-foot (45-meter) siphonophore — seemingly the longest animal ever recorded was discovered during a month-long scientific expedition exploring the submarine canyons near Ningaloo….
1,000 Hidden Species Found in Australian Outback
The Australian Outback might seem lifeless, but under the hot, dry surface, it is actually teeming with life. A group of researchers in Australia, looking…
Two New Frog Species are World’s Smallest
You won’t see many frogs of this size. That’s because they are rare and because they are tiny. Two newly discovered frog species are smaller…
