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Newly described pocket shark likely glows in the dark

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2019

Newly described tree species from Tanzania is likely endangered

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2019

Stylish jumping spider named after late fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2019

Primates lose ground to surging commodity production in their habitats

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2019
A short-finned pilot whale in the Canary Islands, Spain. Image by Gustavo Perez via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New pilot whale subspecies revealed: Q&A with marine biologist Amy Van Cise

Rebecca Kessler 7 Jun 2019

The health of penguin chicks points scientists to changes in the ocean

Mongabay.com 22 May 2019

Meet the new species of venomous pit viper described from India

Shreya Dasgupta 9 May 2019

’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019

IUCN calls for moratorium on projects impacting rarest great ape species

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Apr 2019

New Amazonian species of short-tailed whip scorpion sheds light on ‘the mating march’

Mongabay.com 12 Apr 2019

New species of ancient human found in a Philippine cave

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Apr 2019

New species of skink from Angola has waited over 70 years to be described

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Apr 2019

Meet Mini mum, Mini ature, Mini scule: Tiny new frogs from Madagascar

Mongabay.com 28 Mar 2019

Bid to protect Borneo’s wild cattle hinges on whether it’s a new species

Budi Baskoro 18 Mar 2019

European Parliament to vote on timber legality agreement with Vietnam

John Cannon 11 Mar 2019

Tiny subterranean Texas salamanders could be extinct in 100 years

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Mar 2019

Allegation of forged signature casts shadow over China-backed dam in Sumatra

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Feb 2019

New Species of orangutan threatened from moment of its discovery

Laurel Neme 20 Feb 2019

What does it take to discover a new great ape species?

Laurel Neme 19 Feb 2019

In the Solomon Islands, making amends in the name of conservation

John Cannon 19 Feb 2019

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

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2019

New species of leaf-mimicking lizard could already be victim of pet trade

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Jan 2019

New species of tree frog from Ecuador has a mysterious claw

Mongabay.com 7 Jan 2019

Photos: Top 10 new species of 2018

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Dec 2018

Deep-sea survey of Australian marine parks reveals striking species

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2018

Relative of ‘penis snake’ amphibian named after Donald Trump

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2018

New species of giant salamander described after decades of mystery

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2018

Latam Eco Review: Microbial memories of Venezuela’s lost glaciers

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2018

This blue-throated hummingbird is new to science — but already endangered

Emily Clark 27 Nov 2018

‘No one is helping us’: Venezuelan conservation crippled by crisis

Nora Ward 14 Nov 2018

Haiti may lose all primary forest by 2035, mass extinction underway

Carinya Sharples & Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Nov 2018

17 new brilliantly colored species of sea slugs described

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Nov 2018

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