As a scientist, discovering and describing a new species is rare. Some researchers may go their entire careers without such a discovery, while others dedicate their work to the taxonomic frontier. For ...

Researchers at the Chulalongkorn University Museum of Natural History have identified a new species of spider found in the forests of Kanchanaburi, Thailand. The specimens they collected included both ...

Not only is this species new to science, but this remarkable individual is the first record of a rare biological phenomenon (bilateral gynandromorphism) in this previously unknown species. One of the ...

In western Australia, in a patch of ancient forest undisturbed by people, researchers set up pitfall traps with the goal of collecting elusive spiders. Their survey yielded two rare female specimens ...

In the western forests of Thailand, a burrowing creature that was both male and female was discovered. Maria Krasnova via Unsplash As a scientist, discovering and describing a new species is rare.