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An individual  of a newly discovered gecko species in Nepal now named Karan's bent-toed gecko after veteran Nepali herpetologist Karan Bahadur Shah. Image courtesy of Santosh Bhattarai,

Three new gecko species described in Nepal: Interview with herpetologist Santosh Bhattarai

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Mar 2025
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024
Hylomys macarong, a smooth hedgehog

Greater Mekong serves up 234 new species in a year, from fanged hedgehog to diva viper

Carolyn Cowan 16 Dec 2024
One of the six newly described chameleons from Tanzania

Photos: Top species discoveries from 2023

Liz Kimbrough 27 Dec 2023

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022
Lowland tropical rainforest

Indigenous knowledge settles question of a Bornean tree species: Study

Carolyn Cowan 17 Jun 2022

A marine mystery unfolds with the discovery of nitrogen-fixing plankton

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2022

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021
Western spotted skunk (Spilogale gracilis). Image by Robby Heischman courtesy of the Field Museum.

Pepé Le New: Meet the acrobatic spotted skunks of North America

Liz Kimbrough 15 Sep 2021

‘Mismanaged to death’: Mexico opens up sole vaquita habitat to fishing

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Jul 2021
The new chameleon species, Trioceros wolfgangboehmei

Spiny new chameleon species described from Bale Mountains of Ethiopia

Liz Kimbrough 6 Apr 2021

Two new species of endangered screech owls identified from Brazil

Liz Kimbrough 1 Apr 2021

New map shows where the 80% of species we don’t know about may be hiding

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Mar 2021

Mystery bird not seen in 172 years makes surprise reappearance in Borneo forest

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Feb 2021

Well, hello there: Glass frogs ‘wave’ to communicate near noisy waterfalls

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jan 2021

The Amazon’s short-eared dog was thought to be a scavenger. Now there’s video

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Nov 2020

Madagascar giant frog is a new species, but also a deep-fried delicacy

Rivonala Razafison 1 Sep 2020

Say hello to Madagascar’s newest mouse lemur, a pint-sized primate

Malavika Vyawahare 3 Aug 2020

A ‘crazy beast’ that coexisted with dinosaurs discovered from Madagascar

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2020

New monkey discovered on “island” amid deforestation in Brazil

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2019

AI and drone-based imagery improve power to survey cryptic animals

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 15 Mar 2019

Genetic test reveals Baltic flounder migration routes and a new species

Lakshmi Supriya 13 Mar 2019

Top camera trapping stories of 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 31 Dec 2018

Researcher names spectacular new frog after his granddaughter

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2018

Species recognition shifts into auto with neural networks

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 15 Jun 2018
The newly documented frilled giant Pacific octopus. Photo courtesy of David Scheel

‘New’ giant octopus discovered in the Pacific

Mongabay.com 29 Dec 2017

Fossil discovery in Indonesia reveals ‘lost world’ of beasts

Basten Gokkon 19 Sep 2017

Mystery whale known only from specimens found living in the wild

Rebecca Kessler 3 Nov 2015

Student becomes first researcher to hold an Annamite striped rabbit

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2015

Adorbs: scientists capture first photos of African golden cat kittens

Jeremy Hance 28 Jan 2015

New study: ‘Yeti’ hairs do not point to unknown bear species

Jeremy Hance 12 Jan 2015

Google, zoo to leverage ‘TV white space’ to monitor wildlife

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2014

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