May 13, 2025 by News Staff

The fossils of the giant rainforest tree Dryobalanops rappa found in Brunei (officially Brunei Darussalam), a country on the large island of Borneo, are...

Aug 15, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have unearthed three large (up to 7.2 cm in length) seeds and 43 fossil leaves of an ancient legume species in the Wahana Baratama coal...

Oct 10, 2022 by News Staff

New research led by the global research-for-development organization Bioversity International confirms that the genomes of today’s domesticated banana...

Sep 12, 2022 by News Staff

Archaeologists excavating Liang Tebo Cave on the Indonesian island of Borneo have discovered the skeletal remains of a young individual who had the distal...

Jun 30, 2022 by Sergio Prostak

Nepenthes pudica, a new species of pitcher plant from the lower montane rainforests of North Kalimantan, Indonesia, produces well-developed, fully functional...

Jan 31, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Ornithologists have described two new species of the flycatcher genus Cyornis and the white-eye genus Zosterops from southeastern Borneo, Indonesia. The...

Sep 7, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has discovered two new species of freshwater mussels endemic to the island of Borneo and established a new genus for...

May 13, 2021 by News Staff

Wild Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) catabolize muscle tissue when the availability of fruit is low, according to new research led by Rutgers University...

May 4, 2021 by News Staff

Otus brookii brookii, a subspecies of the Rajah scops-owl (Otus brookii) that had been lost to science since 1892, has been discovered alive and photographed...

Feb 21, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of professional and citizen scientists has discovered a new species of caenogastropod snail living in tropical lowland rainforests of Borneo and...

Oct 21, 2019 by News Staff

An international team of ornithologists led by by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History has discovered and scientifically...

Apr 8, 2019 by News Staff

The world’s tallest known tropical tree, and possibly the tallest flowering plant, has been discovered in the Danum Valley Conservation Area in the Malaysian...

Mar 29, 2019 by News Staff

An international team of ornithologists led by Louisiana State University researchers has discovered a cryptic new species of bulbul in the Malaysian part...

Nov 12, 2018 by News Staff

Cave paintings in Lubang Jeriji Saléh, a limestone cave in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, have been dated to at least 40,000 years ago. A rock painting...

May 3, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of entomologists from the Netherlands and Philippines has discovered three new species of aquatic beetles in the remote Maliau Basin, Malaysian...

Apr 23, 2018 by News Staff

Entomologists are claiming they have discovered a new species of so-called ‘exploding ant’ living in the remote rainforests of Borneo, Thailand, and...

Nov 3, 2015 by News Staff

A tiny snail shell with a diameter of 0.028 inches (0.7 mm) was found on the Malaysian portion of the island of Borneo by a group of scientists from the...

Nov 2, 2015 by News Staff

A new species of woolly horseshoe bat has been described from Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. The Francis’ woolly horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus francisi). Image...

Jan 14, 2015 by News Staff

Insect-eating plants of the genus Nepenthes temporarily switch off their traps in order to lure more prey into danger, according to a new study published...

Nov 5, 2013 by News Staff

Using camera traps, British biologists have captured photographs of the world’s least known cat, the bay cat (Pardofelis badia). The Bay Cat, Pardofelis...