Meet five new species discovered in 2025
Meet five new species discovered in 2025
The article highlights five new species discovered in 2025: Salwasiren qatarensis, an ancient sea cow found in Qatar; Marmosa chachapoya, a mouse opossum from the Peruvian Andes; Siskiyu armilla, a brown spider from Northern California; Careproctus colliculi, a bumpy snailfish from the deep sea off Central California; and three new species of live-birthing toads in Tanzania. These discoveries underscore the vast unexplored biodiversity, the importance of these species to their ecosystems (like the sea cow's role in carbon storage), and the threats they face from climate change and human impact.
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the concept of what is and isn't a species is a difficult one to pin down.
this doesn't make these discoveries any less interesting, but it would have been nice to at least highlight what definitions are being used in these discoveries.
i bookmarked this one as a way to balance out all the other "here are the species we've lost this year" articles...
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