Rediscovered Freshwater Shrimps with Prakash Sanjeevi and Maclean Santos
Freshwater shrimps are difficult to study. They’re nocturnal, they live in leaf litter, and yet they are involved in both commercial fishing and the pet trade, making research on their diversity criti...
6 Mai 38min
Who Describes the Spiders? With Katherine Montana and Cláudia Xavier
“I hope that individual taxonomists take a step back and really think about the choices they make when it comes to collaboration…I want taxonomists to consider equity in their work, and not just consi...
15 Apr 37min
Coming Soon - New Species en Español!
New Species en Español will be a Spanish-language version of the New Species Podcast, hosted by Ivonne Garzón. Subscribe to it here: https://open.spotify.com/user/31jdpbfn26x3w7sa2b76db3z2vxa?si=160a1...
2 Apr 1min
No New Species! With Takahiro Sugiyama, Ryutaro Goto, & Chloé Fourreau
Sometimes, a collection of new species turns out to be… no new species!Takahiro Sugiyama, Ryutaro Goto, and Chloé Fourreau began studying the unique ectoparasitic scale worm Gastrolepidia clavigera in...
1 Apr 37min
Two New Trapdoor Spiders with Donard Geci
Donard Geci fell into studying spiders by accident, but now he can’t imagine his life without them. He’s one of the only arachnologists in the Balkans, a hotspot for spiders as well as plenty of other...
31 Mar 31min
Two New Tachinid Flies with Rodrigo Dios
There are plenty of taxonomists who use museum collections as a resource, but not everyone makes collections the basis of their work. Rodrigo Dios studies Tachinid flies, a group that displays some of...
24 Mar 41min
A Bug's Life (1998) with Jesse and Charleigh Hurlburt
“The queen especially was not like, like totally not like mad mad, but like mad at him…”That analysis is from Charleigh (age 6 ), who I talked to along with her dad Jesse (older than 6) about the 1998...
23 Feb 40min
