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Vulnerable Antarctic reefs reveal wealth of life as rich as tropical corals

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Mar 2022

‘Prospect of existence’: Nameless grasshopper sparks taxonomic debate

Rachel Teng Ruiqi 7 Mar 2022

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

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2022

Chocolate frog? New burrowing frog species unearthed in Amazon’s rare peatlands

Liz Kimbrough 28 Feb 2022
Goby

One fish, two fish: New goby species described from the Philippines

Carolyn Cowan 21 Feb 2022

In Panama, a tiny rainfrog named after Greta Thunberg endures

Liz Kimbrough 11 Jan 2022

Not your ordinary houseplant: World’s tallest begonia found in Tibet

Liz Kimbrough 7 Jan 2022

New shrews just dropped: Sulawesi yields up 14 freshly described species

Basten Gokkon 30 Dec 2021

2021’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Callie Steffen, Douglas McCauley, Emma Critchley, Molly Morse 28 Dec 2021

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021

New Himalayan snake found via Instagram

Liz Kimbrough 18 Nov 2021

Straight outta Borneo: New gecko species just dropped

Ahmad Supardi 2 Nov 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

Scientists describe new tree frog in push to catalog Indonesia’s amphibians

Grace Dungey 2 Sep 2021

Hold the scuba: These lizards can breathe underwater

Mongabay.com 28 May 2021

Absorbent and yellow and … mobile? Sea sponges on the move in Arctic Ocean

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 May 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

Scientists discover three glow-in-the-dark sharks

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Mar 2021

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jan 2021
Photo: The newly discovered orchid, Epidendrum katarun-yariku. Image courtesy of Mateusz Wrazidlo.

New orchid species from Guiana Highlands named by Indigenous group

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jan 2021

2020’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Callie Steffen, Emma Critchley and Douglas McCauley 21 Dec 2020

New snail subspecies with ‘upside down shell’ found in last green frontier east of Manila

Mongabay.com 1 Dec 2020

The newest species of Philippine false gecko is the 10th (and counting)

Mavic Conde 24 Nov 2020

Myanmar’s new langur species is ‘very beautiful,’ but critically endangered

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Nov 2020

A mountain of a reef, taller than the Eiffel Tower, found on Great Barrier Reef

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Oct 2020

On a Philippine mountain, researchers describe a ‘fire flower’ orchid species

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Oct 2020
Mycena haematopus (Burgundydrop Bonnet)

World’s plants and fungi a frontier of discovery, if we can protect them: Report

Liz Kimbrough 1 Oct 2020

Philippine crickets, held nameless in a Hawaii museum, are finally identified

Mavic Conde 24 Aug 2020

Illegal plant trade, tourism threaten new Philippine flowering herbs

Keith Anthony Fabro 13 Aug 2020

New land snail species discovered in Hawaii offers ‘gem of hope’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Aug 2020

From New Guinea to Florida, one of these crocs is not like the others

Francesca Edralin 1 Jul 2020

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