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New species of superb bird-of-paradise has special dance moves

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2018

New species of ‘exploding ant’ discovered in Borneo

Morgan Erickson-Davis 19 Apr 2018

Scientists stumble upon hundreds of octopus moms in the deep sea

Mongabay.com 19 Apr 2018

Population of world’s rarest giant turtle rises to 4 with new discovery

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Apr 2018

‘Lost’ fairy lantern spotted in Malaysian Borneo after 151 years

Mongabay.com 4 Apr 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

Mysterious new butterfly named after YouTuber Emily Graslie

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2018

New thumbnail-sized pygmy squid discovered in Australia

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2018

New population of extremely rare ‘red handfish’ discovered off Tasmania

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2018

Scientists discover 18 new spider-hunting spiders from Madagascar

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Feb 2018

Ecuador announces a new national park in the Andes

Valeria Sorgato 7 Feb 2018

Two new dog-faced bats discovered in Panama and Ecuador

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2018

Stranger than fiction? New spiders found in Brazil named after creatures from popular fantasy stories

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2018

There’s a new member of the lemur family

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jan 2018

Meet Indonesia’s new honeyeater species from Rote Island

Basten Gokkon 5 Jan 2018

New ‘ghost’ scorpion among several species recorded for the first time in Malaysian rainforest

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Jan 2018
The newly documented frilled giant Pacific octopus. Photo courtesy of David Scheel

‘New’ giant octopus discovered in the Pacific

Mongabay.com 29 Dec 2017

Photos: Top 20 new species of 2017

Mike Gaworecki 28 Dec 2017

Scientists determine there are seven species of silky anteater, not one

Mike Gaworecki 22 Dec 2017

Forest Code falls short in protecting Amazonian fish

Mongabay.com 7 Dec 2017

Brilliant blue tarantula among potentially new species discovered in Guyana

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Nov 2017

Scientists surprised to discover new butterflyfish

Mike Gaworecki 3 Nov 2017

A new species of orangutan from Indonesia (analysis)

Anthony B. Rylands, Gabriella Fredriksson, Russell A. Mittermeier, Serge Wich 2 Nov 2017

Brilliantly colored ‘lost’ salamander rediscovered after 42 years

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Nov 2017

Saving the ‘Star Wars gibbon’: Q&A with primatologist Carolyn Thompson

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2017

Seychelles home to new species of caecilian, a legless amphibian

Mongabay.com 19 Oct 2017

Indonesian rainforests for sale and bat calls of the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 18 Oct 2017

Myanmar caves yield up 19 new gecko species

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Oct 2017

Two new ‘birdcatcher’ trees described from Puerto Rico

Mongabay.com 2 Oct 2017

Meet the new Bernie Sanders spider

Mike Gaworecki 29 Sep 2017

Giant tree-dwelling rat discovered in the Solomon Islands

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Sep 2017

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