The new isopod species has been named Bathynomus vaderi after the most famous Sith Lord in the Star Wars movie series, Darth Vader, whose helmet resembles...
Researchers have described a new species of the genus Calotes from southern China and northern Vietnam.
Photographs of live specimens and their habitats:...
Researchers at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History have performed a comprehensive taxonomic review of the soft-furred hedgehog...
An international team of entomologists has described seven new species in the leaf insect genera Phyllium and Pulchriphyllium from Philippines, Vietnam,...
The global spice trade has played an essential role in world history. However, because of poor preservation conditions, archaeobotanical remains of spices...
Scientists have described a new salamander species of the genus Tylototriton from evergreen montane forests on Ngoc Linh Mountain in the Central Highlands...
An international team of researchers has described a new species of the tree frog genus Theloderma from northeastern Vietnam.
Theloderma khoii, holotype,...
An international team of researchers has documented the unique vibroacoustic signals the eastern honeybees (Apis cerana) use to alert members of their...
In a paper published this week in the journal PLoS ONE, an international team of researchers described an extraordinary collective defense used by eastern...
Vietnam features extensive ethnolinguistic diversity and occupies a key position in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA). Yet, the genetic diversity of the country...
The silver-backed chevrotain (Tragulus versicolor), a deer-like species the size of a rabbit or small cat, has been rediscovered by an international team...
A duo of marine biologists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the Justus-Liebig-Universität in Germany has discovered and...
A team of scientists from Hungary, Germany and Vietnam has discovered a new, critically endangered species of softshell turtle in north-central Vietnam...
Modern-day Southeast Asian populations are the result of mixing among four ancient populations, including multiple waves of genetic material from more...
The first whole-genome analysis of ancient human DNA from Southeast Asia, defined as the area east of India and south of China, identifies at least three...
The fascinating creature, a stick-insect, can reach up to 32 cm in body length and 52 cm with forelimbs stretched out. It has reportedly been found in...
Camera traps set up in a remote corner of the Central Annamite mountains by World Wildlife Fund biologists have taken images of the saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis),...
A genetic analysis of the Vietnamese white toothed shrew fauna, reported in the open access journal ZooKeys, has revealed a new species in the genus Crocidura,...
Scientists from the Netherlands, Vietnam and United Kingdom, reporting the journal mBio, have described a new cyclovirus in the viral family Circoviridae.
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An international team of amphibian biologists led by Dr Jodi Rowley of the Australian Museum in Sydney has discovered a new species of flying frog near...