Species

Walk among 2m-tall giant bugs at ArtScience Museum’s magnified insect photo exhibition from Jan 17

(Clockwise from left) Insects: Microsculptures Magnified allows visitors to examine colours, textures and anatomical structures that often remain invisible.

Chinese scientists name new frog species after gongfu

Leptobrachella Kungfu is characterised by its small size, slightly webbed toes with wide edges and creamy white abdomen.

Hand and foot fossils found in Kenya for ancient human relative

Researchers Carrie Mongle and Meave Leakey discuss Paranthropus boisei hand fossils, held in the cases pictured, at the Turkana Basin Institute research station in Ileret, Kenya, in this undated handout photograph. Louise Leakey/Handout via REUTERS

Ancient skull from China may shake up timeline of human evolution

This artist's impression shows the head of an adult male individual who lived roughly 1 million years ago in China's Hubei Province, based on the digital reconstruction of a fossilized archaic human skull, called Yunxian 2 in this image released on September 25, 2025. Jiannan Bai and Xijun Ni/Handout via REUTERS

Peru researchers unveil dolphin-like fossil aged at least 8 million years old found in desert

The fossilized skeleton of a porpoise, a small marine mammal estimated to be between eight and 12 million years old, is displayed after it was unearthed by Peruvian paleontologists in the Ocucaje desert, in Lima, Peru, September 17, 2025. REUTERS/Gerardo Marin

Conservationists fight to save Nigeria's sea turtles from pollution and poachers

Luna, a rehabilitated sea turtle, is released into the Atlantic Ocean more than 10 nautical miles off the Lagos shoreline, after being captured twice by poachers in Lagos Nigeria, June 13, 2025. Conservationists warn that endangered species such as sea turtles are rapidly disappearing along Nigeria's southern coast due to poaching. REUTERS/Sodiq Adelakun

Ethiopian fossils reveal new species in human evolutionary lineage

Scientists hold fossilized hominin teeth discovered in the Ledi-Geraru paleoanthropological research area in the Afar Region of northeastern Ethiopia, in this undated handout picture released on August 13, 2025. Amy Rector, Virginia Commonwealth University/Handout via REUTERS

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