Panchase Protected Forest, in the hills above Nepal’s second city of Pokhara, is known among botanists as an orchid haven. Hundreds of species grow there, many of them found nowhere else in Nepal. I have been working in Panchase for…
Home - Science - Scientists hauling nets across the Barents Sea have counted 304 species, including slow-growing sponges that may be older than anyone on board, and what worries them most is a small fish that keeps turning up scarce A research expedition…
The discovery was part of a research carried out by the Ministry of Earth Sciences' Deep Ocean Mission project. It has been published in the international taxonomy journal Zootaxa. "Deep-sea marine habitats remain among the most difficult ecosystems to study,…
The best represented taxonomic groups are annelids, mollusks, and crustaceans, including the eminent barnacle collection of the late Emeritus Curator Prof. Bill Newman. SIO-BIC contains more than 700 type lots (including more than 120 holotypes) and considerable material properly preserved for genomic…
Two new species of dwarf sheet-web spiders, Poeciloneta duinanensis and Poeciloneta jidingensis, have been described from high-elevation habitats in Xizang, China, raising the number of Chinese Poeciloneta species from three to five.
Insect pests eat their way through thousands of tons of food around the world every year. Food security in developing nations is particularly affected by animal species like the grain weevil and red flour beetle which have specialized in surviving…
A study of East China Sea swimming crabs found that the hepatopancreas holds over 97 percent of the cadmium in edible tissues, while gonads and eggs remain remarkably low across all stages of reproductive development. News Source: Alan Morgan. (October 28, 2026). Cadmium…
Researchers have described five new species of the dwarf spider genus Shaanxinus from mountain leaf litter in Gansu, Guizhou, Shaanxi, and Sichuan Provinces, China, raising the genus to 26 known species. Hidden in the leaf litter of mountain forests across four…
A new comparative study shows that double splitting of the anterior hedgehog expression stripe is not conserved across chelicerates, undermining a key argument that the pre-gnathal head segments of arthropods evolved independently. Subject of Research: Early expression of hedgehog gene…
A newly identified species of trapdoor spider that lives along ocean shorelines and withstands total underwater submersion during high tide has been formally described by an international team of scientists in Mauritius. The arachnid, officially named the Mauritian tidal trapdoor…
Invertebrates beyond insects: spiders, worms, snails, crabs and other crustaceans, jellyfish, octopuses and squid studied by scientists.
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