The Human Family Tree May Need a Major Rewrite
New Monash University research argues our Paranthropus (pictured) and Australopithecus ancestors who lived up to 5 million years…
Mystery Bones Found in Japan Belong to a Giant Salamander Unlike Any Known
A reconstruction of the Ajimu giant salamander, which is believed to have inhabited the lakes and marshes of…
Infection cycles of viruses of the phylum Nucleocytoviricota
Fenner, F. Smallpox: emergence, global spread, and eradication. Hist. Philos. Life Sci. 15, 397–420 (1993). CAS PubMed Google…
Digitally native species are a necessary shift in taxonomic practice
Bánki, O. et al. Catalogue of Life (2025-11-16 XR) (Catalogue of Life Foundation, 2025); https://doi.org/10.48580/dgvbl. Miralles, A. et…
Scientists Discover 24 New Species and New Branch of Life in Area Slated for Deep Sea Mining
A patch of seafloor targeted for future mining has given us a blunt reminder that we don’t really…
Top new species from 2025
Scientists described several new species this past year, including a tiny marsupial, a Himalayan bat, an ancient…
Scientists discover 1,500th species of bat
Laura Torrent did not know that the tiny brown bat she caught in early 2024 would become a…