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A female Eupelmus curvator. Image courtesy of Taisuke Kawano.

Social media images lead to first recording of parasitoid wasp species in Japan

David Brown 6 Aug 2026

New bird species identified on remote Indonesian island

Naina Rao 23 Jul 2026
Likweli, a new-to-science species of colobus monkey described from the DRC. Image courtesy of Bernard Bonanga.

New colobus monkey, ‘Likweli’, confirmed in DRC

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Jul 2026
Planigale petrophila. Image courtesy of Pat Woolley/Queensland University of Technology.

Tiny new marsupial species, not seen in two decades, confirmed from museum specimens

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jun 2026

Museum DNA unmasks new Himalayan pit vipers, study says

Naina Rao 19 Jun 2026
Christine Dudgeon with Dudgeon's walking shark

New walking shark discovered in Papua New Guinea

Megan Strauss 18 Jun 2026

One of the world’s largest deep-sea coral reefs discovered off Argentina

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Apr 2026

After nearly a century, Taiwan’s legless lizard gets its own identity

Naina Rao 27 Apr 2026
New-to-science microsnail, Clostophis udayaditinus. Image courtesy of Somsak Panha, the lead author of the species description.

Translucent microsnail discovered in Cambodia: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 21 Apr 2026

New mahogany species found in Zanzibar — but fewer than 30 trees remain

Ryan Truscott 9 Apr 2026
Collage of the 24 new Amphipod species identified in Clarion-Clipperton Zone, CC BY, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton

24 new species found in ocean zone eyed for battery metals mining

Liz Kimbrough 9 Apr 2026
Lake Victoria in Kenya. Image by Jozef020 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

World Water Day: Earth’s freshwater reveals new species & faces mounting threats

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2026
The Ranitomeya aetherea poison dart frog. Image courtesy of Alexander Mônico.

An ‘ethereal’ new-to-science poison dart frog from the Amazon: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 19 Mar 2026

Photos: Kew Gardens’ top 10 newly named plants and fungi for 2025

Liz Kimbrough 12 Jan 2026

Deep-sea ‘hotels’ reveal 20 new species hiding in Pacific Ocean twilight zone near Guam

Liz Kimbrough 31 Dec 2025
O. shunkusacha

A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk

Astrid Arellano 30 Dec 2025
asian small clawed otter

In Nepal, the world’s smallest otter continues to elude researchers

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Dec 2025

Armored worms and death-ball sponges among array of life newly documented from the deep sea

Liz Kimbrough 5 Nov 2025

New species of gecko described from Madagascar’s sacred forests

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 24 Sep 2025
A Battambang leaf-toed gecko (Dixonius noctivagus).

New gecko species findings highlight threats to Cambodia’s limestone hills

Anton L. Delgado 4 Sep 2025
A brilliant blue male Francis’s gorgeous sapphire, euthanized after being reared in captivity. Image courtesy of Jonathan Francis.

Discovery of dazzling blue butterfly underscores peril facing Angola’s forests 

Ryan Truscott 3 Sep 2025
Group of grey-shanked douc langurs in a tree.

New population of rare douc langurs found in Vietnam’s highland forests

Carolyn Cowan 9 Jun 2025
Banner image of a painted swellshark courtesy of the National Geographic Exploration Technology Lab.

Deep-sea shark recorded on video for first time using low-cost camera

Kristine Sabillo 10 Apr 2025
Zeeshan Mirza with one of the new tarantula species from the Western Ghats. Mirza has discovered several species of reptiles in India as well. Photo courtesy of Mirza.

Exploring India, finding new species: Interview with biologist Zeeshan Mirza

Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2025
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
Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus) photographed in a zoo.

World’s smallest otter makes comeback in Nepal after 185 years

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Feb 2025

Blob-headed fish and four mammals among 27 newly described species in Peru’s Alto Mayo

Liz Kimbrough 27 Jan 2025
A Trimeresurus cardamomesis photographed in Cambodia’s Samlout Multiple Use Area.

Survey uncovers ‘wildlife treasure’ in Cambodian park — but also signs of threats

Anton L. Delgado 22 Jan 2025
Zeeshan Mirza examines a new tarantula species found in India's western Ghats

Four new tarantula species found in India’s Western Ghats mountains

Liz Kimbrough 31 Dec 2024
A Himalayan leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros armiger)

Great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat finally confirmed in Bangladesh

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 27 Dec 2024

Unboxed: New lipstick vine revealed in Philippine expedition with Banao tribe

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Dec 2024
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

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