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Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

Discover how DNA breakthroughs are solving Australia’s most infamous cold cases, including the Easey Street murders and Bondi Beast attacks.

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Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The ...

In London, the Natural History Museum released its 2025 list of newly described species, formally adding 262 plants and ...

According to Kew’s “State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023” report, three out of four undescribed plants are threatened ...

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Telipogon cruentilabrum is one of four new rare and spectacular Telipogon species described in 2025 by Dr Carlos Martel, Research Fellow at Kew and his Peruvian and Ecuadorian colleagues, including ...