By Mongabay.com The state of South Australia has banned fishing of several endangered or critically endangered sharks and ...

For that reason, they named the new species Nepenthes pongoides ... pongoides (Nepenthaceae), a micro-endemic tropical pitcher plant from northern Borneo, Australian Journal of Botany (2024).

They also identified knowledge gaps about several “micro-endemic” species that are confined ... a macroecologist at Australian National University, who wasn’t involved in the study.

From charismatic macrofauna to tiny sea squirts, here are some species formally identified by scientists in 2024.

Dr Head says the advocacy group Invertebrates Australia, which she is a program manager with, is trying to map out areas containing multiple short-range endemic species. "These are species that ...

The mushrooms consumed at the dinner could have been a local Australian species but may have been P. cubensis. Australasia is home to several species of endemic magic mushrooms, such as Psilocybe ...

Sometimes, new species are discovered entirely by chance. Entomologist James Tweed, a Ph.D. student at the University of Queensland in Australia ... which is also endemic to Madagascar.

reptile and amphibian species – even though 90% of their geographic ranges are still “forested”. What does this look like? Take the golden bowerbird (Prionodura newtonia), endemic to ...