Scientists resurrected the genus Philozoon by using modern technologies to thoroughly characterize two of the species of algae that biologist Patrick Geddes had investigated in the mid-to-late 19th ...
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Meet 'Tous' — an entirely new genus of mammal we identified. Here's why it's so exciting
Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...
In the 1990s, paleontologists excavated the oldest existing evidence of Earth’s smallest carnivore in Aragón, Spain. Between ...
Scientists described numerous new species this past year, from the world’s smallest otter in India to a fanged hedgehog from Southeast Asia, tree-dwelling frogs in Madagascar, and a new family of ...
Even large and conspicuous insects remain unknown to science. This is highlighted by a new study from the Natural History ...
As if we needed reminding, new research documenting dozens of previously unknown insect species highlights just how little we ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- In the late 1800s, scientists were stumped by the "yellow cells" they were observing within the tissues of certain temperate marine animals, including sea anemones, corals and ...
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