The three new species of nautiluses belong to the genus Nautilus and represent populations on the easternmost edge of the overall habitat range of the...
About 50 species of birds on Earth today do not belong to the same group as the other 10,000 currently in existence. Known as the paleognaths, this small...
At least two individuals of the Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul) live in Sagarmatha National Park, Mount Everest region, eastern Nepal, according to a...
Sinocyclocheilus longicornus inhabits a completely dark cave in southwestern Guizhou province in China.
Live adult male paratype of Sinocyclocheilus longicornus....
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have validated the discovery of a warm, 0.99 Earth-radius exoplanet interior to the habitable...
Scientists in Japan have generated a highly contiguous genome assembly of the red variety of Perilla frutescens, an important herbal plant with hundreds...
The newly-discovered alien world, named TOI-700e, is 95% Earth’s size and likely rocky.
An artist’s impression of TOI-700e (larger planet) and TOI-700d....
Bush robins are members of the genus Tarsiger, a group of small, colorful birds with high species richness in the Sino-Himalayan region.
The Qilian bluetail...
Using data from NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and NASA’s Juno spacecraft, two...
Asgard archaea (Asgardarchaeota) are considered to be the closest known relatives of eukaryotes, organisms (including animals, plants and fungi) whose...
The two temperate Earth-mass planets are located within the habitably zone of Gliese 1002, a red dwarf star that lies just 4.84 parsecs (16 light-years)...
The Eastern Tropical Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus nuuanu) prefers the deep waters off southern Baja California, the Pacific coast of...
Kepler-1658b is a hot-Jupiter exoplanet orbiting a very massive star 2,600 light-years away.
An artist’s concept of the Kepler-1658 system. Image credit:...
Botanists from the Universitas Samudra have described a new species of the flowering plant genus Thottea from the lowland mixed forests of northern Sumatra,...
Scientists have described a new species of the snake genus Gonyosoma from Hainan Island, China.
The Hainan rhinoceros snake (Gonyosoma hainanense). Image...
Using new images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope as well as archival data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have studied...
Daspletosaurus wilsoni, a tyrannosaurid dinosaur that lived 76.5 million years ago in what is now Montana, the United States, displays a unique combination...
