Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences have unveiled a list of all the new animal, plant and fungi species that they added to the Library of Life in 2024. The new species include a ...

An edible dahlia, a vegetarian piranha, and a new potato bug are just a few of the previously unknown species of plants, animals, and fungi that scientists named and described for the first time in ...

an endangered dahlia, two deep-water ghost sharks and a striped spider from Madagascar. The academy is just one of many institutions globally that document new species. Stenopelmatus ...

The collection, which is accredited by Plant Heritage, safeguards dahlia species and currently has more than 1,700 varieties. Re-planting hundreds of blooms was a mission for the pair but now ...