Eight species of Atherigona shoot flies are recorded from Lesotho for the first time, including a new species, Atherigona jordaensi...

For nearly two centuries, a pair of bizarre ray-finned fishes from the age of dinosaurs have been shuffled back and...

Newly discovered gonodactylid mantis shrimp species from South China Sea reefs reveal hidden diversity and confirm that the genus Gonodactylellus...

An Australian raspy cricket that slipped into New Zealand in 1990 has finally been identified as Pterapotrechus salomonoides, with the...

Oak silkworm eggs laid in the open are protected by the volatile compound 2-ethyl-1-hexanol, which repels parasitic wasps and could...

A dated phylogeny reveals that Africa's four python species descend from a single lineage that entered the continent around 33...

Deep in the rivers of Siberia, a modest aquatic insect is rewriting what scientists know about the evolution of sex...

A new flattened spider species from Bahia, Brazil, and fresh four-gene phylogenetic analyses establish that the Neotropical genus Gephyrellula is...

A comprehensive evolutionary analysis of sphingolipid metabolism proteins across the fungal tree of life reveals that gene duplications in key...

A new study of four invasive Ponto-Caspian mud shrimp species in the River Rhine reveals that differences in second antennae...