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The new report says that more than 1,000 species – spiders, mammals, snakes and a hot pink, poisonous millipede – have been discovered in the Greater Mekong region. Images.

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Fiji’s endangered and endemic Fiji Ground Frog (Platymantis vitianus) has been rediscovered in an expedition into the Nakauvadra Range by local scientists.

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Researchers have discovered a previously unknown group of rare monkeys in the forests of Vietnam.

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The scientists found over 1200 known marine and land species, with five being new to science. Among all the species, they collected sea urchins, free-swimming worms, crustaceans and molluscs, mites and birds.

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The man who has discovered numerous animals in the Amazon will not have to go back to prison. Images.

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National Geographic has published a series of photographs of colorful new species recently discovered.

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Scientists have observed a living pygmy tarsier, one of the planet’s smallest and rarest primates, for the first time since 1921. Image.

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French scientists say they hatched a new gecko species from an egg plucked from its nest in a South Pacific island and carried it 12,000 miles to Paris in a box lined with Kleenex. Image.

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Dr. Luciana Möller and other Australian scientists have discovered a previously unknown bottlenose dolphin swimming in their nation’s southern waters. Images.

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The gap indicates the extinction of the older bird created the opportunity for the newer to colonize New Zealand’s main islands around 500 years ago. Images.

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To the ornithological world, the age of now 14-year-old Spencer Hardy is irrelevant to the phenomenon he helped document on a high-altitude ice field. Images.

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The discovery of at least three new species of colugo flies in the face of knowledge about the tree-dwelling creatures, scientists said today.

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Giant oysters, spaceship-like jellyfish and the common ancestor of deep-sea octopuses are just some of the new species discovered by the Census Marine Life, due to be completed in 2010.

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A 40-mm-sized frog, it differs from other species in having a high degree of small corrugations on the body with prominent discontinuous lateral folds. Images.

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Hiding in plain sight, all these years? Images.

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