A New Iris with John Manning
Southern Africa is home to over 1,200 species of irises, and if that number doesn’t blow you away, hearing Dr. John Manning’s speak about his new species certainly will. In this fascinating episode we...
26 Dec 202340min
A Genus and Five New Species of Pseudoscorpions with Catalina Romero-Ortiz
Dr. Catalina Romero-Ortiz has been fascinated by pseudoscorpions for over a decade, and she wants everyone to understand how amazing they are. But beyond inherent scientific value, Catalina wants to s...
13 Dec 202340min
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
