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A research team led by University of Alberta marine biologists has discovered a new species of sea sponge living off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Desmacella hyaline. Image credit: Sally Leys. Glass sponges (class Hexactinellida) are cup-shaped marine animals, ranging from 10 to 30 cm (3.9-11.8 inches) in height, …

Biologists Identify 16 Deep-Sea Fish Species with Ultra-Black Camouflage In a paper published today in the journal Current Biology, a team of marine biologists from the United States and the United Kingdom investigated the distribution and production of ultra-black camouflage in deep-sea fish. They found that at least 16 deep-sea …

  A new genus and species of long-necked herbivorous dinosaur that lived during the Triassic period has been identified from fossils found in northern Switzerland. Schleitheimia schutzi (left) and Plateosaurus (right). Image credit: Beat Scheffold. Schleitheimia schutzi lived approximately 210 million years ago (Triassic period) in what is now Switzerland. …

  An international team of herpetologists from Germany and Madagascar has discovered and described three new species of chameleons from the Calumma nasutum species group. Calumma emelinae. Image credit: Prötzel et al, doi: 10.26049/VZ70-1-2020-3. “Madagascar is a paradise for nature lovers, since most of the land vertebrate species are only …

A new species of alvarezsaurid dinosaur that lived approximately 66 million years ago (Cretaceous period) has been unearthed in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana, the United States. This life-size model of Trierarchuncus prairiensis was sculpted by Boban Filipovic, a paleontologist and artist from Serbia, and is on display at …

New Species of Diamond Frog Discovered in Madagascar German herpetologist Mark Scherz has discovered a new species of diamond frog living in northern Madagascar. Rhombophryne ellae. Image credit: Mark Scherz. The diamond frogs belong to Rhombophryne, a genus of microhylid frogs in the subfamily Cophylinae. More than 20 species are …

New Species of Deep-Water Dogfish Shark Discovered Marine biologists have discovered a new species of the shark genus Squalus in the tropical waters off southern Japan. The Shirai’s spurdog (Squalus shiraii): lateral (A-C) and ventral (D, E) views. Scale bars – 50 mm. Image credit: Viana Carvalho, doi: 10.3897/zse.96.51962. Squalus …

Two New Species from New Mexico Help Fill Gap in Evolution of Horned Dinosaurs Two new transitional species of plant-eating horned dinosaurs have been unearthed in New Mexico, the United States. Navajoceratops sullivani and Terminocavus sealeyi. Image credit: Ville Sinkkonen Denver Fowler. The newly-discovered dinosaurs roamed the Earth approximately 75 …

Discovered in Peru An international team of ornithologists has described three new species of the bird genus Scytalopus from the Peruvian Andes. New Scytalopus species from the Peruvian Andes: (upper left) adult male and female of the Jalca tapaculo (Scytalopus frankeae); (upper right) male Jalca tapaculo from Junin; (lower left) …

A team of paleontologists from Canada, China, the United States and Slovak Republic has identified a partial clutch of large dinosaur eggs with a closely associated baby dinosaur skeleton as an embryo and eggs of a new, large caenagnathid oviraptorosaur, Beibeilong sinensis. A nesting cassowary-like dinosaur named Beibeilong sinensis in …