The Mirror turtle ant (Cephalotes specularis) – an insect recently discovered in Brazil by entomologist Dr Scott Powell of the Columbian College of Arts...
Primate ecologist Dr Laura Marsh of the Global Conservation Institute in Santa Fe, NM, has described five new species of the genus Pithecia (saki monkeys)...
An international team of ornithologists led by Dr Marcos Bornschein of the Mater Natura-Instituto de Estudos Ambientais in Curitiba has described an endangered...
Brazilian paleontologists have unearthed a large bone bed with at least 47 individuals of a previously unknown pterosaur, named Caiuajara dobruskii.
This...
An international team of ichthyologists led by Dr Ralf Britz of Natural History Museum in London, UK, has described a new fish species from the Rio Negro in...
U.S. researchers from the University of Missouri and the University of New Mexico have used satellite images to track the movements and demographic health...
Ichthyologists have described a new genus and species of electric knifefish from the Rio Negro, the Amazonia State of Brazil.
Procerusternarchus pixuna....
Dr Joseph Parker, a biologist with both Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, has described a new genus of rove beetles from...
Scientists from Brazil and the United Kingdom have described a new species of true river dolphin from the Araguaia River basin, the first such discovery...
An international group of entomologists has described a new genus and species of fungus-farming ant from Brazil.
Cyatta abscondita. Image credit: Jeffrey...
Native to the forests and open savannas of Brazil and Colombia, Tapirus kabomani is the newest member of the tapir family (Tapiridae).
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Brazilian biologists from the Federal University of Paraíba have discovered a new species of porcupine in the genus Coendou.
The Baturite porcupine, Coendou...
Entomologists from Utah State University have described two new gorgeous species in the rare wasp genus Abernessia.
Abernessia giga, female. Image credit:...
Brazilian arachnologists from Butantan Institute and the University of Brasília have discovered three new of wafer trapdoor spiders.
Female Fufius lucasae,...
Wildlife Conservation Society biologists have discovered cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers between 10,000 to 4,000 years ago while studying wild...
Prof Donald Stewart from Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at State University of New York has described a new species of arapaima from the...
Biologists reporting in the open-access journal Zookeys have identified a diminutive new catfish species in the waters of Rio Rio Paraíba do Sul basin,...
An international team of entomologists from Brazil and the United States has described a new species of tiny insect.
The newly discovered forcepfly Austromerope...
Dr Rogério Bertani, a tarantula specialist with the Instituto Butantan in Sao Paulo, has reported the discovery of nine species of tree-dwelling tarantulas.
Female...
