16 new species have been added to the group, Loboscelidia, based on their unique physical characteristics. Scale bar = 0.5 mm. Credit: Yu Hisasue et…
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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have discovered a new species of ancient beaver in their fossil collections and named it “Anchitheriomys buceei”…
Green lines with dots show a pure culture of Medakamo hakoo streaked onto an agar medium. Study co-author Emeritus Professor Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa first discovered the…
An artist’s concept of Kumimanu and Petradyptes penguins on an ancient New Zealand beach. Kumimanu, the larger of the two, weighed around 340 pounds and…
A picture of the tropical kelp forest. Credit: Charles Darwin Foundation/University of Malaga The Charles Darwin Foundation-led research holds importance due to the discovery of…
Artist’s reconstruction of Ignacius dawsonae surviving six months of winter darkness in the extinct warm temperate ecosystem of Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. Credit: Kristen Miller,…
Otus bikegila. Credit: Martim Melo A new species of owl has just been described from Príncipe Island, an island lying off the west coast of…
Specimen of new bee species, Leioproctus zephyr. Credit: Curtin University A new native bee species with a dog-like “snout” has been discovered in the Perth…
Phalotris shawnella. Credit: Jean-Paul Brouard A magnificent non-venomous snake, previously unknown to science, was discovered in Paraguay and described by researchers from the Paraguayan NGO…
Ocean Water Samples Yield Treasure Trove of RNA Virus Data Ocean water samples collected around the world have yielded a treasure trove of new data…
This is the earliest armored dinosaur found in all of Asia, and is helping our understanding of when and where these animals first appeared. Credit:…
An artistic reconstruction of the newly described 328-million-year-old vampyropod. Credit: © K. Whalen Description of exceptionally preserved fossil pushes back age of Vampyropoda by nearly…
Diegoalerus with fossil. Credit: San Diego Natural History Museum Paleontologists describe sabre-toothed mammal new to science, offering view into evolution of meat-eaters. The fossil, housed…
Hail to the squid — A vampyropod fit for a president Researchers at Yale and the American Museum of Natural History have identified the earliest…
Guemesia ochoai could have looked similar to relatives such as Carnotaurus sastrei (pictured). Credit: © Fred Wierum, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons…
An illustration showing the newly discovered fossil birds (Meemannavis the larger one on the left in the center foreground, and Brevidentavis open-mouthed on the right).…
Some undiscovered species are hiding right under our noses. Ormyrus labotus, a tiny parasitoid wasp known to science since 1843, has long been considered a…
Life reconstruction of Mambawakale ruhuhu by Gabriel Ugueto, who retains the copyright. Only the skull, mandible and a few postcranial elements are known for Mambawakale…
This dataset (blue points in the central map) was used for the parametric estimation and merged with the TREECHANGE occurrence-based data (purple points in the…
Humbertium covidum, an invasive hammerhead worm found in Italy. Credit: Pierre Gros Two new species of potentially invasive hammerhead flatworms from Europe (France and Italy)…