ScienceScientists Discover a New Ladybird Species — On a Tree Outside Their Own LabResearchers 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.
ScienceScientists Discover 24 New Deep-Sea Species, Including Entirely New Family of LifeResearchers exploring 4,000 meters below the Pacific found two dozen new creatures — one so unique it belongs to a previously unknown branch of the animal kingdom.
ScienceWe're Living in a Golden Age of Species Discovery — And Scientists Say the Best Is Yet to ComeScientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species every year, from deep-sea creatures to high-altitude fungi, revealing a planet far more biodiverse than anyone imagined.
