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Unusual lizard lays eggs, then births a live baby — in the same pregnancy

Mongabay.com 5 Apr 2019

Super variable California salamander is ‘an evolutionist’s dream’

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Mar 2019

We know why zebras got their stripes, but how do they work?

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2019

Six new catfish species, facial tentacles and all, described in Amazon

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2019

New species of tree frog from Ecuador has a mysterious claw

Mongabay.com 7 Jan 2019

New species of giant salamander described after decades of mystery

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2018

Africa’s slender-snouted crocodile is not one but two species

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2018
Monopterus rongsaw, a swamp eel from India. Photo © Rachunliu G Kamei

Hot pink swamp eel discovered in Indian rainforest

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2018

New tree species from Cameroon is possibly already extinct

Mongabay.com 3 Oct 2018

New species of neon-colored fish discovered off Brazil

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2018

New species of blood-red coral found off Panama coast

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2018
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A river runs through it — and keeps the Amazon’s bird species diverse

Claire Asher 24 Aug 2018

New orchid species discovered in Peruvian Amazon

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2018

Species evolve more than twice as fast at poles as in tropics: study

Gloria Dickie 12 Jul 2018

How an island of mice is changing what we know about evolution

Morgan Erickson-Davis 17 May 2018

Land plants may have evolved much earlier than we thought

Morgan Erickson-Davis 21 Feb 2018

Scientists find ‘surprising’ connections between tropical forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 5 Feb 2018

New checklist catalogs every vascular plant in the Americas

Mongabay.com 28 Dec 2017

Seychelles home to new species of caecilian, a legless amphibian

Mongabay.com 19 Oct 2017

Bats key pollinators for durian production, camera traps confirm

John Cannon 3 Oct 2017

New study: Bird species blossom in stable climates

John Cannon 17 Aug 2017

New genetic analyses help scientists rethink the elephant family tree

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Aug 2017

How a mass extinction event gave us the majority of frogs alive today

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jul 2017

Among their many impacts, roads are driving rapid evolutionary adaptation in adjacent populations

Mike Gaworecki 15 Mar 2017

‘Revolutionary’ new biodiversity maps reveal big gaps in conservation

John Cannon 27 Jan 2017

Field Notes: Can we alter endangered species to be more adaptable?

Elizabeth Devitt 28 Sep 2016

Hawaiian crow could help us learn about evolutionary origins of tool-using behavior

Mike Gaworecki 16 Sep 2016

A sex change phenomenon in fish suggests there is something in the water

Christina Selby 5 Apr 2016

An unconventional trinity: conservation, religion, and evolution

Fred Bercovitch 22 Dec 2015

Are animals adapting to cities faster than we think?

Sean Mowbray 13 Nov 2015

How can a bat survive deforestation? Be small, mobile, and vegetarian

Sophie Furnival 2 Nov 2015

New study argues ‘land sparing’ is better for the birds

Jeremy Hance 12 Oct 2015

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