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Top camera trapping stories of 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 31 Dec 2018

Relative of ‘penis snake’ amphibian named after Donald Trump

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2018

Researcher names spectacular new frog after his granddaughter

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2018

Species recognition shifts into auto with neural networks

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 15 Jun 2018
Screen cap from video shot by Akshay Kumar

Epic battle between tiger and sloth bear caught on film

Mongabay.com 3 Mar 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
A Gonatus squid eating another squid. Photo © MBARI

Videos unlock secrets of jellyfish as deep-sea killers

Mongabay.com 24 Dec 2017

Amazon tribe’s traditional medicine encyclopedia gets an update, and conservation effectiveness in Madagascar examined

Mike Gaworecki 12 Dec 2017

Fossil discovery in Indonesia reveals ‘lost world’ of beasts

Basten Gokkon 19 Sep 2017

‘Snow white’ giraffes caught on video for the first time

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2017
A close relative of Geckolepis maculata, Gecklolepis megalepis, a new species of fish-scale gecko, was described earlier this year. Photo courtesy of Frank Glaw

Newly discovered gecko loses scales in ‘really bizarre’ behavior

Benji Jones 16 Feb 2017

Tadpoles found living in Japanese streams with hottest water ever recorded for an amphibian

Mike Gaworecki 5 Aug 2016

Scientists have discovered six new dancing peacock spiders in Australia

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jul 2016

Scientists discover ‘friendly cartoon ghost’ octopod in deep ocean off Hawaii

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2016
Photo released by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game showing a mountain lion with an unusual deformity-fully-formed teeth and what appears to be small whiskers were growing out of hard fur-covered tissue on the left side of the animal's forehead.

“Two-faced” cougar raises questions

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2016

Mystery whale known only from specimens found living in the wild

Rebecca Kessler 3 Nov 2015

Student becomes first researcher to hold an Annamite striped rabbit

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2015

Recently discovered ‘punkrocker’ frog changes skin texture in minutes

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Apr 2015

Halloween in the Amazon: baby bird dresses up like killer caterpillar

Jeremy Hance 23 Mar 2015

Even cockroaches have personalities

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 12 Mar 2015

New study argues the Anthropocene began in 1610

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2015

Human impacts are ‘decoupling’ coral reef ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 9 Mar 2015

How the Sahara keeps the Amazon rainforest going

Jeremy Hance 2 Mar 2015

Bison-sized rodent may have used teeth like elephant tusks

Jeremy Hance 23 Feb 2015

Scientists uncover new seadragon

Jeremy Hance 18 Feb 2015

How termites hold back the desert

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2015

Adorbs: scientists capture first photos of African golden cat kittens

Jeremy Hance 28 Jan 2015

New study: ‘Yeti’ hairs do not point to unknown bear species

Jeremy Hance 12 Jan 2015

New bat species has fangs you won’t believe

Jeremy Hance 8 Jan 2015

Scientists rediscover Critically Endangered streamside frog in Costa Rica

Victor Montoro 26 Dec 2014

Giant stone face unveiled in the Amazon rainforest (video)

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2014

Meet the world’s rarest chameleon: Chapman’s pygmy

Jeremy Hance 25 Nov 2014

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