Large New Amphibious Centipede Species Discovered in Okinawa and Taiwan
Godly proportions for rare jade Scolopendra named after local gods, one of the largest arthropods in Japan. Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University and Hosei University…
Godly proportions for rare jade Scolopendra named after local gods, one of the largest arthropods in Japan. Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University and Hosei University…
Do freshwater snails make good tennis players? One of them certainly has the name for it. Enter Travunijana djokovici, a new species of aquatic snail…
A new 160-million-year-old arboreal pterosaur species, dubbed ‘Monkeydactyl’, has the oldest true opposed thumb — a novel structure previously not known in pterosaurs. An international…
120-million-year-old animals evolved “scratch-digging” traits independently. Paleontologists have discovered two new species of mammal-like, burrowing animals that lived about 120 million years ago in what…
Research into the flower preferences of pollinating moths may have delivered a vital clue to the simple factors needed for the emergence of new species….
A brand new species of parasitic cuckoo wasp was discovered based on its clever use of pheromones. Cuckoo wasps – also called emerald wasps –…
Recordings of owls’ screeches used to help tell species apart. The Amazon rainforest is teeming with creatures unknown to science—and that’s just in broad daylight….
Ancient predatory insects discovered in region once thought uninhabitable. Fossil discoveries often help answer long-standing questions about how our modern world came to be. However,…
Introducing a “bizarre” shark from the Late Cretaceous that, more than 66 million years ago, plied the seas feasting upon plankton while soaring through the…
A group of scientists led by the American Museum of Natural History and Bat Conservation International have discovered a new species of a striking orange…
The culture-dependent study allowed to isolate a surprisingly large number of diverse and previously unreported bacterial strains from the Tabernas Desert. Microorganisms are the most…
A research team from the University of Helsinki has discovered a tree hyrax in the Taita Hills, Kenya, which may belong to a species previously…
Waray Dwarf Burrowing Snake occupies its own branch on snake tree of life. To be fair, the newly described Waray Dwarf Burrowing Snake (Levitonius mirus)…
An amateur fossil hunter has unearthed a new type of prehistoric ‘sea dragon’ on the beach of the UK’s Dorset coast. The new 2m-long ichthyosaurus…
Deemed to never see the light of the day, a new species of endemic, troglobiont centipede was discovered by an international team of scientists in…
Already possessing more salamander species than any other state in the country with 63, North Carolina has just added one more to make it 64….
“This animal was obviously doing something different,” Baylor University paleontologist says. A mysterious small marine reptile dating from 150 million years ago has been identified…
A new primate species dubbed the Popa langur has been discovered in Myanmar after years of extensive study, including analysis of a 100-year-old specimen kept…