The common home of many different kinds of life on Earth. Although many species are already known, the unknown base is even greater, and there are some newly discovered species every year, which are constantly reported. So, what new species have recently been discovered in the world?
01 A new venomous snake in Australia
Bryan Fry, a biologist at the University of Queensland in Australia, recently spotted a new venomous snake at a loading dock, though it may have been endangered as soon as it was discovered. The snake, the latest member of the Bandy Bandy snake family, named Vermicella Parscauda, was found by Bryan Fry near the Cape York Peninsula, a bauxite miner in Rio Tinto. They are about 30 to 40 cm long and have thin white bands and thick black bands along their bodies. The findings have been published in Zootaxa, the International Journal of Zoology.
02. A new deep-sea shark
Scientists have just discovered an undocumented shark species from deep water in the Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic Ocean, officially named Squalus Clarkae, also known as Gune's Dogfish — in honor of the late marine biologist Eugenie Clark. Looking at the big eyes, it belongs to the Dogfish family, a small shark that lives in deep water and reproduces slowly, with a pregnancy of up to two years. Deep-sea sharks are all formed by similar evolutionary pressures, so they end up looking very similar, so we can rely on DNA technology to understand how long a species has evolved and how different it is from other species.
03. A pelican on the island of New Zealand
Recently, a newly discovered diving petrel was discovered off the coast of Stewart Island in southern New Zealand. The bird was named the Whoua Hou pelican. So far, an estimated total of 250 such birds live on a 1 km sandbar. New Zealand's biodiversity, especially birds, is not overshadowed. At first, the researchers said, people thought it was a herd of South Georgian Diving Petrels. But later, they discovered that the birds varied in size, shape, and color. They are also the only known pelicans that can breed in a dune environment. Taken together, these differences are enough to classify them as a new, independent species based on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
04. Two new species of bats have been found in Kenya
There are about 5,000 to 6,000 species of mammals worldwide (5,488 in the 2008 edition of the IUCN Red Book), of which there are more than 1,200 species, accounting for one-fifth of the total number of mammals. Recently, after taking a closer look at ordinary bats near Kenya, scientists were surprised to find that there were two yellow bats that had never been recorded before! It can be described: do not look at it, do not know, a look of shock. They belong to the bats under Scotophilus, which are found throughout Africa and southern Asia, averaging about five inches long and have bright yellow fur on their abdomen. Many species live in urban environments, and some, such as yellow bat bats, often inhabit man-made buildings. More than half of these bats have been discovered over the past 15 years, and their "bat-to-bat relationships" have puzzled biologists.
05. A new wasp in Amazon
Recently, while collecting insect specimens in Amazonia, scientists discovered a new wasp with a giant stinger. They are named Listopyga crassicaudata. The spines are surprisingly large—they can be used both to lay eggs and as a venom syringe. It was found in the lower-lying rainforest between Andes and Amazonians, a place of great ecological diversity.
06. A new gecko on the Indonesian islands
In the jungles of Indonesia's South Sulawesi province, a new gecko has recently been discovered. Found on the remote island of Tanahjampea, the gecko belongs to the genus Cyrtodactylus tanahjampea, the thirty-sixth species of curved-toed geckos in Indonesia, with a total of 233 species. Scientists have found that a slight bulge can be seen in the middle of the gecko's scales, especially around the forelimbs and hindlimbs. This is unique.
07. Newly discovered spider species in Indiana Caves
The arachnid, 2 mm in diameter, was collected by Marc Milne and Julian Lewis in October 2016 at the Stygeon River Cave in Indianapolis, south of Indiana. Julian Lewis, a cave researcher and president of the Indiana Karst Conservancy, was the first to spot this strange-looking spider in a flooded cave system. In general, the distinction between spiders is first of all to look at its genitals; but Milne had thought on first examination that the spider was a small island spider from the previously discovered Kentucky. It was later discovered that it was a new independent species. They published the study in the journal Subterranean Biology.
08. A new frog in Brazil
Brazil's biodiversity is truly second to none. This frog was newly discovered by a team of researchers from Brazil and the United States in the Northern Brazilian Amazon Basin. Its eyelids are reticulated and translucent; it has spines on its forelimbs; and on July 20, the discovery of the new species, called Boana icamiaba, was published in the Southern American Journal of Herpetology. This newly discovered Boana icamiaba is a kind of gladiator frog. There are 93 species of gladiator frogs, characterized by large spines near the thumbs of the forelimbs and transparent eyelids.
09. A new tick has been found in the United States
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health issued a warning that St. Louis-U.S. has discovered a new tick that the U.S. has not previously reported. This tick is called the Longhorn Tick, also known as bush tick or cow tick. Globally, this is not a new species. Previously, Australia, New Zealand and East Asia were common. But now, for the first time, they have been reported on the East Coast, Arkansas and Texas. Americans are more nervous about ticks, the most famous of which was deer tick (Deer Tick), which is a carrier of Lyme disease, anaplastic disease and babe's disease, and it will take a while after being bitten to be found, and symptoms such as fever will occur. Treatment is often done with antibiotics.
10. Rapid evolution of mitochondria can accelerate the formation of new species
Recently, in July 2018, researchers at Oregon State University published an article with the core idea that the rapid evolution of mitochondria may lead to the formation of new species. Their latest findings are based on a model study of species differentiation in crustaceans in the Intertidal Pacific Ocean, a small low benthic zooplankton called Tigriopus californicus, which studied the co-evolution of mitochondrial and nuclear genes.
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