New Species
Just a fraction of the species on our planet are known to science, but more are described and published every day. This podcast talks to the authors of these new species to get the behind-the-scenes stories of how new species are found and named, as well as why these discoveries should matter to everyone, not just scientists. Join us on our journey to better understand the wonderful biodiversity of our planet!
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- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 102
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Three New Species of Ground Snake with Alejandro Arteaga
Have you heard of snakes in the genus Atractus? They’re the largest snake genus in the world, and recently they received three new members found in an unexpected place. In this episode, Alejandro Art…
A New Species of Thyreophoran Dinosaur with Facundo Riguetti
New Species: Jakapil kaniukura
Did you know that there are still new dinosaurs being identified? In this episode, hear from Facundo Riguetti, a PhD student of the Universidad Maimónides-CONICET and …
A New Species of Ambrosia Beetle with Rachel Osborn
What's an ambrosia beetle? How do you go about finding one? Learn all of this and more as we interview Dr. Rachel Osborn of the A.J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection at Michigan State University. …
S02 Episode 9: A new spring-snail species from the Belasitsa Mountains!
Dilian Georgiev is an Associate Professor in the department of Ecology and Environmental Protection at The Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv. In this episode, he tells Zoe about his recent pap…
S2, E08: Two episodes in one! First, a new Taylor Swift millipede, then ectoparasites and mites!
Dr. Derek Hennen works for the Virginia Department of Agriculture as the Slow the Spread Coordinator monitoring the spongy moth populations in the state. He talks to co-host Brian Patrick about his p…
S2, E07: New species of vampire worms from the deep ocean!
Kaila Pearson just graduated with her Master’s from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. She’s here today to talk to me about her paper in the April 22nd…
S2, E06: A new spider from Madagascar!
Brogan Pett is our guests and he talks about his recent paper in which he and his coauthor describe a new species of spider from Madagascar in the March 14th issue of Zootaxa. Brogan is a doctoral re…
S2, E05: A new species of underground frog with a nose like a tapir!
In this episode, Zoe interviews Germán Chávez, Associate Researcher at the Instituto Peruano de Herpetologia and the Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad in Lima, Peru. His newly described frog is i…
S2, E04: Huge woolly flying squirrels from the Himalayas!
Zoe interviews Kris Helgen, Chief Scientist and Director of the Australian Museum Research Institute. They discuss how one species became three, what makes these animals unique, and what other questi…
S2, E03: New crustaceans from Africa and a new frog species from Panama!
Two interviews in this episode! First, Agata Szwarc from the University of Gdansk in Poland talks about her recent paper in the December 9th(2021) issue of Zookeys in which she and her coauthors desc…
S2, E02: A new amphipod from Japan!
Dr. Kris White and Sally Sir are our guests as they talk about their paper in which they describe a new species of amphipod from Japan in the February 1st issue of Zootaxa. Ms. Sir is an undergraduat…
S2, E01: Two new species of frogs from Ecuador!
Dr. Juan Reyes-Puig is a Coordinator of Ecological Reserves with the Fundacion EcoMinga Red de Protection des Bosques Amenazados in Ecuador. He talks to me about his paper published in the January 10…
Episode 30: Planthoppers are the mosquitoes of the plant world, and collecting in Costa Rica!
Dr. Brian Bahder is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida’s Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center. He talks to me about his paper published in the September 6 issue of the Zoota…
Episode 29: Fossil mammaliaforms that walked the Earth with dinosaurs!
Dr. Elsa Panciroli, a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in England, and associate researcher at National Museums Scotland, is my guest this we…
Episode 28: A new species named because of this podcast (!!) and another after the father of modern medicine!
Alireza Zamani is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Turku in Finland. He talks to me about his paper published in ZooKeys on August 3 in which he and his coauthor describe a new genus and ten ne…
Episode 27: Tiny spiders from Central America and a brief discussion of “spider porn” and a species named after a Brazilian soccer team!
Dr. Thiago da Silva Moreira is an Adjunct Faculty at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He talks to me about his recent paper published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society a…
Episode 26: The taxonomic impediment, Part II, an interview with the founder of Pensoft Publishing!
Dr. Lyubomir Penev is the Managing Director and Founder of Pensoft Publishing and a Professor of Ecology at the Bulgaria Academy of Sciences in Sofia, Bulgaria. He talks to me about the founding of P…
Episode 25: Four new species of armored scale insects and working on groups of organisms on which few others want to work!
Dr. Scott Schneider is a Research Entomologist in the Systematic Entomology Lab at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, MD, USA. He talks to me about his paper published in the Jun…
Episode 24: Huntsman spiders from Madagascar, David Bowie, and collecting spiders the size of dinner plates!
Dr. Peter Jaeger is the Head of Arachnology at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. He talks to me about his paper published in the June 10 issue of th…
Episode 23: Reefs built by a new species of oyster instead of being built by corals!
Dr. Graham Oliver is an Honorary Research Fellow at the National Museum of Wales in the UK. He talks to me about his paper published in the June 15 issue of the ZooKeys in which he and his coauthors …