Researchers identified hundreds of new species in 2024, expanding our knowledge of Earth’s startling biodiversity.

In 2024, scientists described and named a staggering 190 new species, including a vegetarian piranha and a rat confined to a ...

A vegetarian piranha from the Amazon and a flying dinosaur found on the Isle of Skye are among the species previously unknown ...

Another, Carmenta brachyclado, travelled from Guyana to Wales in a photographer’s boot before being identified as a new species. A vegetarian piranha, Myloplus sauron, was discovered in Brazil ...

A vegetarian piranha with a distinctive mark. And a pygmy pipehorse floating in the Indian Ocean shallows. These wild wonders were among the hundreds of previously unknown species of animals ...