A beautiful turquoise‑and‑lilac sea creature that has been kept in hobbyist aquariums around the world for nearly two decades has finally been given a scientific species name. The modest crustacean hiding in plain sight turns out to be Cherax pulverulentus, an entirely new crayfish species no biologist had cataloged until now. Jiří Patoka of the Czech University of …
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In a groundbreaking discovery, botanists have identified a towering, ancient species of tree in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. Known as Tessmannia princeps, these giants stand at heights of up to 131 feet and are estimated to be between 2,000 and 3,000 years old. The research team, led by Andrea Bianchi, a horticulturist at the Muse Science Museum in Trento, documented the …
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In a remarkable discovery on the cliffs of Durlston Bay near Swanage, Dorset, a new species of prehistoric mammal has been unearthed, offering fresh insights into the diversity of early mammals that coexisted with dinosaurs. The fossilized remains, dating back approximately 145 million years to the Berriasian age of the Cretaceous period, were found by Benjamin Weston, an undergraduate paleontology …
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Paleontologists in China have discovered the skeletal remains of a remarkable new genus and species of huge-sized mamenchisaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic epoch. Fossil remains of Tongnanlong zhimingi. Image credit: Wei et al., doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-09796-0. The newly-described species lived in what is now southwestern China some 147 million years ago (Late Jurassic epoch). Scientifically named Tongnanlong zhimingi, this sauropod …
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