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Bats may comprise at least 40% of the overall mammal diversity in Rwanda. Image courtesy of Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association – RWCA.

Discovery of critically endangered bat in Rwanda leads to conservation talks

Aimable Twahirwa 25 Apr 2025
Researchers find a new killifish species, Nothobranchius sylvaticus, in an an ephemeral swamp in the Gongoni Forest Reserve in Kenya. Image by Dirk Bellstedt.

Researchers find new killifish species in Kenya

Gilbert Nakweya 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
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
Hylomys macarong, a smooth hedgehog

Greater Mekong serves up 234 new species in a year, from fanged hedgehog to diva viper

Carolyn Cowan 16 Dec 2024
Researcher Alain Senghor K. Ngute looking at a photo of a millipede on a laptop, and making notes on a clipboard on the desk in front of him. Image by Haimdu Mnendendo.

Tanzania’s ‘mountain of millipedes’ yields six new species

Ryan Truscott 26 Mar 2024
The new orchid species, Solenangis impraedicta, has a long nectar spur. Image courtesy of Marie Savignac.

‘Mind-blowing’ new orchid species found in Madagascar forest canopy

Liz Kimbrough 22 Mar 2024
A small, bright green chameleon with pale orange patches on its head, clinging to a matching stalk with its tail curled tightly. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

New ecoregion proposed for Southern Africa’s threatened ‘sky islands’

Ryan Truscott 13 Mar 2024

Giant anaconda species found on Waorani Indigenous land in Ecuador

Liz Kimbrough 28 Feb 2024
De Winton's Golden Mole, a blind mole that lives beneath the sand and has sensitive hearing that can detect vibrations from movement above the surface. (Photo by JP Le Roux)

We’re losing species faster than we can find them, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 27 Feb 2024

Newly identified shorebird species takes its name from Hanuman, a mythical Hindu ape god

Malaka Rodrigo 25 Jan 2024
One of the six newly described chameleons from Tanzania

Photos: Top species discoveries from 2023

Liz Kimbrough 27 Dec 2023

Collaboration key to rediscovery of egg-laying mammal in Papua’s Cyclops Mountains

Basten Gokkon 28 Nov 2023
The electric-blue tarantula, Chilobrachys natanicharum, found in Thailand. Image courtesy of Yuranan Nanthaisong

New electric-blue tarantula species is first found in Thailand mangroves

Liz Kimbrough 9 Oct 2023

‘Lost’ Brazilian holly tree species found again after nearly 200 years

Liz Kimbrough 21 Sep 2023

Newly described gecko from Madagascar a master of disguise

Malavika Vyawahare 14 Sep 2023
Tachymenoides harrisonfordi

It had to be a snake: New species from Peru named after Harrison Ford

Liz Kimbrough 29 Aug 2023

Should species be named after people? It’s up for debate.

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jul 2023

New research shines a light on Sri Lanka fireflies

Malaka Rodrigo 15 Jul 2023
An Asiatic wildcat in Gujarat, India.

Lucky No. 13? Latest images could add to Nepal’s 12 wildcat species

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Jun 2023
Calotes goetzi

Greater Mekong proves an ark of biodiversity, with 380 new species in a year

Liz Kimbrough 24 May 2023
Coral Reef at Marsa Gozlani site, Sharm el Shekh, Egypt

Global Ocean Census aims to find 100,000 marine species in 10 years

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 May 2023

New ‘snug,’ a snail with a too-small shell, described from Brunei rainforest

Basten Gokkon 27 Apr 2023

Newly described leafless orchid in Sri Lanka named after a precious yellow sapphire

Malaka Rodrigo 31 Mar 2023
A dusky tetraka.

Lost bird found: Dusky tetraka seen in Madagascar after 24-year absence

Liz Kimbrough 7 Mar 2023
A pygmy chameleon.

Six newly described chameleon species reflect Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains’ fragility and richness

Ryan Truscott 3 Mar 2023

Newly described DiCaprio’s snake and others threatened by mining in Ecuador and Panama

Liz Kimbrough 23 Feb 2023

New gecko species from Timor-Leste hints at island’s unknown diversity

Liz Kimbrough 21 Feb 2023
Nautilus vitiensis (left) and Nautilus samoaensis.

‘They’re everywhere out there’: Three new nautilus species described

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Feb 2023

New species of ‘Tolkien frog’ emerges from Middle Earth of Ecuadoran Andes

Liz Kimbrough 17 Feb 2023

No croak: New silent frog species described from Tanzania’s ‘sky island’ forests

Liz Kimbrough 9 Feb 2023
Mount Namuli.

Forests & finance: Setbacks for a rare bat, and progress for an oil pipeline

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2023

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