A New Scorpion with Javier Blasco-Aróstegui
What do glaciers and scorpions have in common? They’re the focus of Javier Blasco-Aróstegui’s paper in which he and his coauthor describe a new species from the foothills of Mount Olympus. It’s an are...
28 Nov 202329min
A New Gecko with Javier Lobon-Rovira
When researchers talk about species disappearing before we can discover them, they’re talking about species like Javier Lobon-Rovira’s new gecko. With a specific and rapidly fragmenting habitat, this ...
17 Okt 202324min
Three New Wolf Spiders with Danni Sherwood
The island of Saint Helena can’t be described without the word special. It’s a small territory in the south Atlantic that is home to some of the most unique biodiversity in the world, including some e...
3 Okt 202348min
Collections Data with Makenzie Mabry
On this podcast we talk a lot about natural history collections. In fact, a spot (or more) of collections work is pretty much required to describe a new species. But what actually counts as a natural ...
19 Sep 202331min
Seven New Leaf Insects with Royce Cumming
You’ve got to hand it to leaf insects; their camouflage is so well-refined that studying them is difficult and collecting them is near-impossible. A sub-group of stick insects, members of the family P...
5 Sep 202329min
Five New Kleptoparasitic Spiders with Cláudia Xavier
Mysmenopsis is a tiny spider genus that has been shaped by women; women have collected, identified, and described the majority of members of the genus. In fact, Dr. Nadine Dupérré alone described 25 s...
22 Aug 202324min
Eleven New Starfish with Chris Mah
Grab your parkas, we’re going to Antarctica! Or at least some researchers did in the 1960s, but it took starfish expert Dr. Chris Mah until the past few years to take a look at their samples and find ...
8 Aug 202333min
A New Millipede with Paul Marek and Cedric Lee
Cedric Lee was collecting slugs with another diplopodologist James Bailey when they stumbled upon a very odd creature; thin and string-like with lots of fine legs and a long body. “We recognized that ...
11 Juli 202328min
