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190-Year-Old DNA Confirms Nepal's Pangolin as a New Species
A pangolin skin collected in Nepal in 1836 and stored at London's Natural History Museum held the answer: the Himalayan pangolin is its own distinct species, hidden in plain sight for two centuries.
Human Achievements
'Pink Zebra' Seaweed Confirmed New Species After 40 Years
A UK marine botanist confirmed a mysterious pink-striped seaweed as a new species — 40 years after first spotting it in a Cornish maerl bed and never being able to pin it down.
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Scientists Discover a New Ladybird Species — On a Tree Outside Their Own Lab
Researchers combing 1,700 specimens across Japan turned up a previously unknown ladybird beetle — living, all along, on a pine tree beside their own university building in Fukuoka.
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New 'Ballista' Spider Builds Spring-Loaded Trap to Catch Ants
Discovered in North Queensland's rainforests, the newly described spider weaves a catapult-like silk web that flings a single ant species into the air before reeling it in.
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149 New Marine Species Discovered Off Christmas and Cocos Islands
Scientists aboard the RV Investigator catalogued sea stars, worms, sea cucumbers and one fish at nearly 5,000 metres deep — all new to science.
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New Bright-Green Pitviper Discovered in China's Giant Panda National Park
Researchers named the new Sichuan snake species Trimeresurus lii — the Huaxi Green Pitviper — honoring the philosopher Laozi after DNA analysis revealed it had hidden in plain sight for decades.
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Webb Telescope Discovers a Bizarre 'Sulfur World' — A Brand-New Type of Exoplanet
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an entirely new class of exoplanet: a sulfur-drenched world with a molten interior, just 35 light-years from Earth.