New Species Podcast
1) Three New Lichens with Erin Manzitto-Tripp
How much do you know about lichens? These incredible taxa are understudied, but today’s guest is making sure they’re not undervalued. “You can’t look at lichens under a microscope and not become immed...Show More
2) Three New Fossil Dictyopterans with Soo Bin Lee
The Cretaceous insects in the family Umenocoleidae have been difficult to classify, but for Soo Bin Lee they are a window into one of the most interesting periods of our prehistoric world. While close...Show More
3) A New Geometrid Moth with Ivonne Garzón
Do you have a love of holometabolic insects? Ivonne Garzón is the president of their fan club! She studies a subset of geometrid moths that may look drab, but their colorful caterpillars and relations...Show More
4) Un Nuevo Puercoespín con Héctor Ramírez-Chaves
Los puercoespines, una de las criaturas más adorables y dolorosas a la vez, captan la atención en toda su área de distribución mundial. En este artículo, Héctor Ramírez-Chaves y sus coautores describe...Show More
5) A New Porcupine with Héctor Ramirez-Chaves
Simultaneously one of the cutest and most pain-inducing creatures, porcupines capture attention all over their worldwide range. In this paper, Héctor Ramirez-Chaves and his coauthors describe a new sp...Show More
6) A New (Old) Apple with Todd, Cameron, and John
The moment John Bunker saw the 200+ year old tree, he knew it might be special. He had no idea however, that it was one of America’s oldest surviving apple trees, a French ancestor to many of the appl...Show More
7) A New Butterfly with Zac MacDonald and Julian Dupuis
Think butterfly genomics is a simple topic? Think again, but this time think alongside Zac MacDonald and Julian Dupuis. Not only are they answering some of the most interesting contemporary conservati...Show More
8) Five Deep-sea Isopods with Henry Knauber
Deep-sea isopods come in all shapes and sizes, and Henry Knauber is excited to see all of them. In this paper, he and his coauthors describe five new species and redescribe another as part of a large ...Show More
9) A New Toxungenous Scorpion with Léo Laborieux
“Serendipity is a real grabbing force of science,” says Léo Laborieux as he shares his experience describing his new species of scorpion. While at a remote research station in the Colombian rainforest...Show More
10) A New Begonia with Dipankar Borah
Begonias are known around the world as a plant of beauty and diversity. What can they teach us about the world around us? Through his work on Begonias and other flowering plants found in Northeast Ind...Show More