New fish species looks just like Mr. Snuffleupagus
It’s surely no surprise that my favorite Sesame Street character is Aloysius Snuffleupagus, a.k.a. Mr. Snuffleupagus, a.k.a. Snuffy.…
Digitally native species are a necessary shift in taxonomic practice
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Top new species from 2025
Scientists described several new species this past year, including a tiny marsupial, a Himalayan bat, an ancient…
Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup
Lax, G. et al. Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes. Nature 564, 410–414 (2018). Article CAS …
Scientists discover 1,500th species of bat
Laura Torrent did not know that the tiny brown bat she caught in early 2024 would become a…
A domed pachycephalosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia
Sues, H.-D. Functional morphology of the dome in pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs. N. Jb. Geol. Palaontol. Mh. 8, 459–472 (1978).…
New discoveries of Australopithecus and Homo from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia
Villmoare, B. et al. Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia. Science 347, 1352–1355 (2015). ADS …
Record-Setting Tarantulas Boast Longest Sex Organs to Avoid Getting Eaten by Females
Researchers have just identified four new species of tarantulas whose genitals are so long they had to make…