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Earth is a fantastic place. There are so many species of plants, animals, and fungi that we know about. And there are so many more left to discover! Meet some newly discovered and described species: a tapir frog that looks like a real chocolate frog…
Chocolate frogs are an important part of the diet of young wizards and witches at Hogwarts. You can also buy chocolate frogs if you visit a Harry Potter theme park. A team of scientists exploring the peatlands of the Amazon rainforest in Peru found chocolate frogs…
Shrews are some of the smallest mammals on Earth. None of them are bigger than a mouse, and although they resemble mice, they are not rodents. Shrews are insectivores. They spend their lives hunting down insects in underbrush or burrowing for them through the soil. Shrews stay…
Virendar Bhardwaj uploaded this photo of a snake in his backyard in India. It was later found to be an undescribed species. Screenshot from Instagram Photo by Virendar Bhardwaj. Many people use social media hoping to get discovered as singers, actors, and comedians. Now a new…
Biologist Nilanthi Rajapakse (pictured below) of the Department of Wildlife Conservation in Sri Lanka discovered a new plant species with years of careful observation and field work. Nilanthi Rajapakse. Image courtesy of the Department of Wildlife Conservation. Mongabay writer Malaka Rodrigo explains how Nilanthi Rajapakse discovered…
Scientists in Ecuador have discovered not one, not two, but THREE new species of orchids in the montane rainforests of Ecuador. A team of researchers from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador discovered one of the new species along a roadside. This orchid has a…
Guess what? New scorpion species have been described in the Western Ghats region of India.
Check out these newly described tiny owl species!