By Tyler Carney, Ph.D., Jiri Hulcr, Ph.D., and Andrew Johnson, Ph.D. Contributions from other bark and ambrosia beetle taxonomists are welcome, as the database has a global scope. High-quality images of beetles are particularly valuable, even if the species is…
Rice University evolutionary biologist Scott Egan and his research team have unearthed a new species of tiger beetle, deemed Eunota houstoniana, honoring the Houston region where it predominantly resides. The study is published online in Nature Scientific Reports. "It is…
Materials provided by University of Göttingen. Note: Content may be edited for style and length. Scientists Discover Mysterious 150,000-Year-Old Bone From an Extinct Human Relative in Chinese Cave After 150 Years, Scientists May Have Solved the Mystery of Westminster Abbey’s Roman…
Amphipods embrace sea spiders in the Southeast Pacific Ocean’, a second observation was made at nearly 2,700 metres below the surface, showing another sea spider carrying two amphipods. The repeated association indicates that the amphipods may be using the much larger…
A new process-based model reproduces the Japanese beetle's invasion of northern Italy and Switzerland and projects invasion speeds of up to nearly 20 kilometers per year across Europe. Subject of Research: Spatial population dynamics modeling of the Japanese beetle invasion in…
A pale-yellow fungus up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall, growing from the roots of dying trees in China’s Yunnan province, belongs to a lineage that may have originated in the aftermath of the dinosaur extinction. Stromata of Dianjunus rex in the…
A newly described thin-toed gecko from Qom Province, central Iran, expands the known diversity of Mediodactylus and sharpens species boundaries in a notoriously difficult group. The study names Mediodactylus veshnavahensis sp. nov. and characterizes it using morphology, geometric morphometrics and…
Researchers have described Rana shii sp. nov., a medium-sized brown frog from Chongqing, China, that forms an independent evolutionary lineage and is the sister species of Rana maershanensis. The species is distinguished by a combination of features, including the absence…
A single 845 mm specimen of the cutthroat eel Meadia roseni, collected at a fishing port in Nha Trang, Vietnam, represents the first record of the species outside Taiwan.
Researchers have identified *Floritettix phlox*, a new species of grasshopper endemic to the heavily burned low oak scrub habitat of the Bombing Range Ridge in central Florida. This discovery was made during field surveys conducted at Avon Park Air Force…
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