Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...

Scientists warn that human activities are “eroding nature to the point of extinction” after releasing a list of new species ...

A Taranaki biologist is overjoyed after discovering what is thought to be a new species of spider. Regional Council ...

A spider with extraordinary genitalia, a carnivorous caterpillar that wears its prey's body parts, and a tiny opossum are among the cool new species described by science in 2025.

Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The ...

Telipogon cruentilabrum is one of four new rare and spectacular Telipogon species described in 2025 by Dr Carlos Martel, ...

A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting ...

Little did Sandra Sánchez know, when she was out working in a Key Native Ecosystem (KNE) site in North Taranaki, that she ...

Little did Sandra Sánchez know when she saw some small, unusual tunnels at a North Taranaki Key Native Ecosystem (KNE) that ...

Habitat loss, deforestation, the illegal wildlife trade and climate change are pushing these extraordinary species towards ...

Scientists named 190 new plants and fungi in 2025, many already threatened. New DNA tools are speeding discovery as habitat ...