Category: 7. Science

On a routine wildlife survey in a forest reserve in southwest China, scientists caught a weasel that turned out to be a species no one had recorded before. The animal, now named Mustela mopbie, is the newest member of a famously elusive group of…

Scientists at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, have developed a gene editing technique that improves canola yield for farmers by introducing a particular starch-producing enzyme into the crop’s genetic material.

According to the…

Far beneath Antarctic waters, scientists have found a killer sea sponge with a near perfect ball shape that grabs and eats passing animals. It is the star of dozens of newly confirmed deep sea species from a remote part of the Southern Ocean.

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Scientists in the Colombian Amazon have described a new fish species called Priocharax rex, only about 0.8 inches long, in a 2025 study. 

It is the largest known member of its tiny genus and carries a round wing-like flap of skin between its…