46+ min ago   (1090+ words) Genetic research revealed four distinct gentoo penguin species, including a newly identified species from the Kerguelen Islands. Scientists warn climate change may endanger several isolated island populations. The emperor penguin, which can grow to about 4 feet (1.2 meters) tall, is the…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (477+ words) Pristimantis milpe is a common and widespread species that was mistaken for another species for more than a century. The formal description appears in the international journal ZooKeys, which specializes in biodiversity and taxonomy research. The key to identifying Pristimantis…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (772+ words) Thousands of enormous whales are turning the waters off East Greenland into an immense feeding ground that barely existed a generation ago. Fin whales, humpback whales, and common minke whales now gather along a coastline where all three were once…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (727+ words) Genetic analysis has revealed a distinct baobab species in Madagascar, potentially changing how two threatened tree populations are conserved. Although the two species look similar, genetic analysis showed that northern populations formerly assigned to A. za are actually more closely related…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (663+ words) A small frog living in a flooded corner of the Amazon has turned out to be something scientists had never formally recognized before. Some species hide in remote places. Others hide in plain sight. That detective work revealed more than…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (269+ words) Seven newly identified diamond frogs reveal hidden diversity that is already influencing conservation planning in Madagascar....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (715+ words) Four newly identified chameleons reveal the hidden diversity of Mozambique’s isolated mountain forests. High above the savanna of northern Mozambique, isolated rainforest patches conceal animals found nowhere else. Surveys of these granite mountains have now identified four previously unknown species…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (738+ words) New research indicates the Oropouche virus has spread far more widely than reported, exposing major gaps in disease surveillance. Until recently, few people had heard of the Oropouche virus. But after a massive 2023 outbreak swept across Brazil, infecting tens of…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (567+ words) Rare charcoal fragments from an ancient lakeshore campsite are offering new clues about fire use, resource management, and the environmental knowledge of some of humanity’s earliest fire users. At the prehistoric site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov (GBY) in northern Israel,…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (816+ words) DNA taken from elephant dung revealed that Angola’s elephants living at high elevations belong to a distinct genetic lineage connected to elephants in Namibia. DNA recovered from elephant dung offered an unexpected answer. The ghost elephants are genetically different from…...