A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on Earth. Now celebrated as the father of modern taxonomy, he developed the ...

From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more than 70 new species were described this year by researchers at the ...

Nine new butterfly species have been discovered hiding in 'plain sight' among the some 80,000 drawers that make up the lepidoptera collection of the Natural History Musuem, London. A study describing ...

Researchers announced over 70 new species in a single year, including bizarre insects, ancient dinosaurs, rare mammals, and deep-river fish. Many were found not in the wild, but in museum collections, ...

Among the approximately 16,000 new species described every year, roughly 6,000 are insects. Pictured here is a lanternfly from India. About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a ...

Scientists studying deep coral reefs near Guam say they have identified up to 20 potential new-to-science species—and a plethora of colorful and weird marine creatures—from the ocean's depths. The ...

Female praying mantises are notorious for eating their mates during or after sex. Now, scientists have discovered a dwarf mantis species in which males avoid this fate with an elaborate dance ...

Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast of Guam. It’s like twilight to the human eye, even in the middle of the day. This part ...

Scientists recently discovered a new member of Tripedaliidae (a family of box jellyfish) living in brackish ponds near Hong Kong. Only 1.5 centimeters in length on average, these new jellyfish have 24 ...

Richard Butler receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the European Commission and the British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies. In 2025, dinosaurs were everywhere. In May, the ...

University of Florida researcher Dr. Rudolf Scheffrahn recently helped to discover a new termite species. It looks like Moby Dick.