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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, 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

This Philippine butterfly had a mistaken identity for years, until its ‘rediscovery’

Keith Anthony Fabro 28 Jun 2020

From a Philippine conflict hotspot, a new insect-eating plant emerges

Elizabeth Fitt 17 Jun 2020

Sex organs reveal new jumping spider species in the Philippines

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2020

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

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2020

New honeyeater species described from Indonesia’s Alor Island

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2019

New species of giant flying squirrel brings hope to one of the world’s ‘most wanted’

Nanticha Ocharoenchai 4 Sep 2019

Meet the new species of venomous pit viper described from India

Shreya Dasgupta 9 May 2019

Bird-rich Indonesian island yields up new songbird species

Basten Gokkon 26 Oct 2018

Secrets revealed: Researchers explore unique, isolated forest in Mozambique

Morgan Erickson-Davis 19 Oct 2018
A flowering tea plant in Vietnam. Photo via Pixabay.

New tea plant discoveries in Vietnam highlight vitality of protected areas

Michael Tatarski 3 Aug 2018

Under the sea: Life is the bubbles in newly described deep-reef zone

Basten Gokkon 28 Mar 2018

150 years after being discovered, African monkey with handlebar moustache becomes its own species

Mike Gaworecki 16 Mar 2018

Ecuador announces a new national park in the Andes

Valeria Sorgato 7 Feb 2018

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