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Muduga leaping frog is first new member of its genus found in over a century

Mongabay.com 11 Mar 2020

New parasitoid wasp species discovered in Amazon manipulate host behavior in ‘complex way’

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2020

Philippine fruit bats may be entirely new species of their own, DNA suggests

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2020

One six-week expedition discovered ten new songbird species and subspecies in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2020

2019: The year Sri Lanka’s stunning new species came to light (Commentary)

Amila Prasanna Sumanapala 6 Jan 2020

Photos: Top 15 new species of 2019

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Dec 2019

New monkey discovered on “island” amid deforestation in Brazil

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2019

‘A crisis situation’: Extinctions loom as forests are erased in Mozambique

David Njagi 5 Dec 2019

Amazonian tree with human-sized leaves finally gets ID’d as new species

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Nov 2019

Meet the new parasitic wasp species named ‘Idris elba’

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2019

New honeyeater species described from Indonesia’s Alor Island

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2019

Facebook and Instagram posts help locate pygmy seahorses in Taiwan

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Nov 2019

New species of shrimp-like creature found in a whale shark’s mouth

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2019

New species of orange-red praying mantis mimics a wasp

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2019

New grouper species discovered in Australian fish market

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2019

A ‘sly’ species of leaf-tailed gecko uncovered from Madagascar

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Oct 2019

New flowerpecker species discovered in imperiled lowland forests of Borneo

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2019

Photos: Meet the surprisingly diverse day geckos of Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 18 Oct 2019

For Indonesia’s newest tarsier, a debut a quarter century in the making

Basten Gokkon 8 Oct 2019

Nine new Fijian bees described, some restricted to a single mountaintop

Mongabay.com 24 Sep 2019

Newly described Chinese giant salamander may be world’s largest amphibian

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2019

Shocking news: There are actually three species of electric eel in the Amazon, not one

Mongabay.com 13 Sep 2019

New gecko species named in honor of Sri Lankan herpetologist Anslem de Silva

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 13 Sep 2019

Sri Lanka scientists stand by naming of new geckos amid nationalist criticism

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 10 Sep 2019

New monkey species found in Amazon forest area that’s fast disappearing

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Sep 2019

What’s in a name? For Sri Lanka’s newest geckos, a political firestorm

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 27 Aug 2019

New orchid species from Japan lives on dark forest floor, never blooms

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2019

‘Extremely rare’ fossil tooth of hamster-sized monkey found in Peru

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2019

Two ferns presumed extinct found on remote Australian mountaintops

Mongabay.com 26 Jul 2019

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

Chance rescue turns out to be first record of elusive tortoise species in India

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Jul 2019

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