A new species of mammal, resembling a giant elephant shrew has been discovered in Tanzania.
The bizarre-looking creature, dubbed Rhynochocyon Udzungwensis, is a type of giant elephant shrew, or sengi.
But despite its name, the creature, is not actually related to shrews. It is actually more closely related to another group of African mammals, which include elephants, […]

One does not expect to discover a bird species new to science while wandering around the continental United States. Nor does one expect that such a species would provide much insight into how co-evolutionary arms races promote speculation.
On both fronts a paper to appear in The American Naturalist proves otherwise. Julie Smith, now at Pacific […]

A French-led marine expedition team has discovered what is believed to be thousands of new species of molluscs and crustaceans around a Philippine island.
The announcement was made by officials and scientists on Monday.
Some 80 scientists, technicians, students and volunteers from 19 countries led by Philippe Bouchet of the French National Museum of Natural History surveyed […]

After the skeletal remains of an 18,000-year-old, Hobbit-sized human were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, some scientists thought that the specimen must have been a pygmy or a micro-cephalic - a human with an abnormally small skull.
Not so, said Dean Falk, a world-renowned paleoneurologist and chair of Florida State University’s anthropology […]