An international effort to document life in the world’s oceans has turned up more than a thousand species entirely new to ...

Species across the planet are on the move. Climate change has already caused more than 12,000 species to shift their homes across land, freshwater and the sea. They move to escape unfavorable ...

Specimens gathered from fishing harbors can provide valuable clues about deep-sea life.

A small team of ichthyologists at the California Academy of Sciences has discovered a new species of damselfish living off the shores of the Maldives. In their paper published in the journal ZooKeys, ...

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After a two week expedition off the coast of Brazil, an international team of researchers discovered 31 new marine species, ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - For more than a century, biology textbooks have stated that vision among vertebrates - people included - is built from two clearly defined cell types: rods for ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. California Academy of Sciences researchers and collaborators described 72 new-to-science species in 2025, including a bird, fish, plants, sea slugs ...