A team of marine biologists led by a Florida International University researcher has described a new species of the shark genus Sphyrna from the Caribbean...
Paleobotanists have described nine new species of the grape family Vitaceae on the basis of 60- to 19-million-year-old fossil seeds discovered in four...
In 2013, the oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus), a species of small spotted cat from the Americas, was split into two species: the northern tiger cat (Leopardus...
Dr. Kenneth Tennessen, a researcher at the Florida State Collection of Arthropods, has described a new species of the damselfly genus Psaironeura from...
In new research, ornithologists from Drexel University, the Delaware Museum of Nature & Science, and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture conducted...
Researchers from the Universidad del Rosario, the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the Field Museum of Natural...
An international team of scientists has described a new species of the rainfrog genus Pristimantis from the cloud forests of Panama and named it after...
A team of researchers from the American Museum of Natural History, Siena College and the Bell Museum at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, has discovered...
The sweat bee Megalopta genalis, a Neotropical nocturnal bee species that navigates under the forest canopy at light intensities 10 times dimmer than starlight,...
A team of biologists from the United States, Canada, Panama and Taiwan has isolated a new species of cyanobacteria from a tropical hornwort plant found...
Paleontologists have discovered what they say is the oldest macrofossil evidence of Paullinieae, a diverse group of tropical and subtropical climbing plants...
A previously unknown species of coral has been discovered in Hannibal Bank, a guyot seamount off Pacific Panama.
Psammogorgia pax. Image credit: Hector...
The remarkably complete fossil skeleton of a sea cow with large incisor tusks that lived approximately 20 million years ago (Miocene epoch) has been discovered...
Two new species of dog-faced bats have been discovered in the tropical forests of Central and South America. Both new species are described in the March...
Two bird species that look the same, but have songs so different they can’t recognize each other, should be considered distinct species, according to...
For the first time, researchers have identified a multicomponent RNA virus – one containing different segments of genetic material in separate particles,...
Seven fossil teeth recovered from the Miocene layers of the Las Cascadas Formation in the Panama Canal Basin are the first evidence of a monkey on the...
A team of marine scientists has captured a rare video of thousands of pelagic red crabs (Pleuroncodes planipes) swarming in hypoxic (low-oxygen) waters...
Motion-sensitive cameras placed at several sites in Panama have captured images of the bush dog (Speothos venaticus), one of the most enigmatic of the...
A new species of bioluminescent shark has been described from eight specimens collected off the Pacific coast of Central America at depths ranging between...
