Across last year, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences described 138 new animals and scientists at the Natural ...

It's the time of year when scientific organizations take a look back at some of the most amazing new animals, plants, fungi ...

So far, only 10% of Earth's species have been identified. Recent discoveries include a new pygmy pipehorse, vegetarian ...

A cute fuzzy beetle, a sea squirt that looks like a cross between a panda and a zebra, and a piranha-like fish that's vegetarian: These are just a few of the new species formally identified in 2024.

A toothy toadstool. 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 ...

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

The scientists highlighted the importance of naming and describing species to understand ecosystems and how they are affected by human-driven impacts A vegetarian piranha from the Amazon and a flying ...

Scientists from the Natural History Museum (NHM) and their global partners have discovered almost 200 previously unknown species over the past year, including a vegetarian piranha from the Amazon and ...

Picture: Mark H Sabaj/PA Wire Fri, 20 Dec, 2024 - 09:15 Rebecca Speare-Cole A vegetarian piranha from the Amazon and a flying dinosaur found on the Isle of Skye are among the species previously ...

A vegetarian piranha from the Amazon and a flying dinosaur found on the Isle of Skye are among the species previously unknown to science that have been named this year. Natural History Museum (NHM ...