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A 32.2-centimetre 'colossogiant' isopod collected in Puerto Rico in the 1980s sat unrecognized in a German university collection for ~40 years — until a student and a curator revealed it as a species new to science, complete with a 15-million-year family history.
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A speck noticed on a casual 2019 dive off Taiwan has been formally named Thecacera sesama — a sea slug under three millimetres long, the first new Thecacera described in nearly three decades, and named after the word divers themselves use: sesame.
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Half a kilometre down off Costa Rica, metre-tall yellow coral trees rise from seafloors carpeted with brittle stars — so distinct that science had to invent a new family, Laurinqueidae, and name it in Tolkien's Elvish.
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On 3 October 2026, Chulalongkorn University researchers formally described two new limestone-karst snails — Siamochlamys isanensis and S. lannaensis — doubling their genus to five species, all found in Thailand and nowhere else on Earth.
A two-week taxonomy workshop in Buenos Aires has confirmed 57 new marine species — including Loki, a horned sea cucumber named for the Norse trickster god — from a South Atlantic canyon twice as deep as the Grand Canyon.
A century-old museum sponge just gave up its secret: ten new species of one-headed, tree-bodied branching worms — and an entirely new genus — revealed by DNA from specimens that waited in drawers since 1914.
Two new sea spider species — one with hairy feet and red eyes, one named for the sound of crashing waves — have just been described from the Salish Sea, the first new sea spiders formally named there in almost a century.
A house-cat-sized feline rescued in Bolivia's cloud forest has been revealed as Leopardus tilcayo — the first new wild cat species formally named in over a century, and the key that quietly unlocked a five-species family tree.
A new ghost-white deep-sea coral from the Nazca Ridge builds a tree-sized colony out of grains of sand — and its tissues just revealed chitin, the hidden glue that solves a mystery dating back to 1887.
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