New Species Podcast
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A podcast where scientists talk about their recently described new species, what their work looks like, and why it matters. newspeciespodcast.net and wherever you get your podcasts
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The Thin Horizon of a Plan is Almost Clear: Towards a Lichen Biodiversity Inventory of the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA
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November 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Redirecting
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October 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Read Ivonne's paper in Zootaxa: www.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5666.1.8
A new cryptic Phyllodonta Warren (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Mexico City with documentation of its life history
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October 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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New Species Podcast
Just a fraction of the species on our planet are known to science, but more are described and published every day.
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September 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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read the paper in the Journal of Mammalogy: doi.org/10.1093/jmam...
A review of the Quichua Porcupine Coendou quichua complex (Rodentia: Erethizontidae) with the description of a new species from Colombia
Based on integrative analyses, the Quichua Porcupine (Coendou quichua complex) comprises 3 different species. One available name (C. rothschildi) is resurr
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September 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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New Species Podcast
Just a fraction of the species on our planet are known to science, but more are described and published every day.
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August 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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For more great information on this discovery, as well as some beautiful pictures of this tree, read this article by @mainepublic.org
On a Maine island, historians discover one of the oldest living apple trees in North America
The Drap D'Or de Bretagna — or Golden Cloth of Brittany, in French, is one of a few historic apples that are the genetic ancestors of many of the common varieties we eat today. And the Verona Island t...
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August 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
For more great information on this discovery, as well as some beautiful pictures of this tree, read this article by @mainepublic.org
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Genomic and ecological divergence support recognition of a new species of endangered Satyrium butterfly (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)
We describe a highly isolated population of hairstreak butterfly from Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada, as a new species, Satyrium curiosolus sp. nov., previously recognized as Satyrium s...
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July 29, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Across trench and ridge: description of five new species of the Haploniscus belyaevi Birstein, 1963 species complex (Isopoda, Haploniscidae) from the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench region
Integrative taxonomy provides a valuable approach to discover and unravel even morphologically almost indiscernible species, such as those forming “cryptic” species complexes. The six members of the r...
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July 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Biomechanics of venom delivery in South America’s first toxungen-spraying scorpion
Abstract. Venom is a metabolically expensive secretion used sparingly in a variety of ecological contexts, most notably predation and defence. Accordingly,
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May 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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May 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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A new species Begonia ziroensis and a new record of Begonia siamensis from Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India
A new species, Begonia ziroensis D.Borah, Taram & M.Hughes is described herein based on collections made in Ziro Valley of Lower Subansiri District of Arunachal Pradesh. It is distinct from all oth...
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May 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Species discovery in Southern African bee flies (Diptera, Bombyliidae): A new species in the revised genus Enica Macquart, 1834
The Bombyliidae genera Enica Macquart, 1834 and Nomalonia Rondani, 1863, restricted to South Africa, are synonymized. Currently, one species of Enica is known from South Africa, Enica longirostris (Wi...
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April 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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