Newfound Species
Latest about newfound species
![The newfound Araniella villanii is an orb-weaver spider, a group that uses math to spin their webs.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/saoii6hVbvGdAUHxUZp3vN-320-80.jpg)
Newly discovered neon-green spider named after the 'Lady Gaga of mathematics'
By Laura Geggel published
Given their coloring, the members of this spider's family are known as green cucumber spiders.
![Photo of the American pocket shark specimen.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UT2TyTMGcUKMtiRTWezfAJ-320-80.jpg)
Adorable Shark Fits in Your Hand, Looks Like a Mini Sperm Whale
By Mindy Weisberger published
And the tiny shark has a wee pocket near its fin.
![A French Forest and Hunting Office employee holds up a "cat-fox" thought to be a new feline species.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nMy8qrzm9D6RUtgyEKzQSJ-320-80.jpg)
Meet the Cat-Fox, an Oddball Feline Roaming Around a French Island
By Yasemin Saplakoglu published
They're big and have fox-like tails.
![rock-eating shipworm](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UBzFKEfNQev7teTmUiyjr6-320-80.jpg)
This Weird Animal Eats Rocks for Breakfast
By Laura Geggel published
Rocks might not sound like a delectable meal to most life-forms, but it's on the menu for a newly identified species of a plump, bizarre-looking clam.
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Please Do Not Feed These Tweezer-Beaked, Hopping Rats Peanut Butter!!!
By Rafi Letzter published
These kangaroo-like rats turn up their long, toothless snouts at peanut butter, but they love earthworms.
![A fossil vertebrae of the newly discovered dinosaur species <em>Fostoria dhimbangunmal</em> discovered in opal.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JC48dJTGCmxUajUQmDF434-320-80.jpg)
Iridescent Bones of a Lost Dinosaur Herd Discovered in an Opal Mine
By Yasemin Saplakoglu published
Gemstones are precious, especially when they come filled with dinosaur bones.
![phytosaur illustration](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Lb9HkSV2LzJvRBQ2p7eJ5i-320-80.jpg)
Car-Size 'Sea Monster' Terrorized Triassic Oceans
By Laura Geggel published
A crocodile-like beast the length of a Volkswagen Beetle terrorized prey in the late Triassic oceans about 210 million years ago, a new study finds.
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