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‘Large'-eyed creature found in murky water of shrinking pond. It's a new species

On a floodplain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a shrinking pond, doomed to eventually dry up. Inside its murky waters swam a scaly blue creature with "large" yellow eyes. Something about ...
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Burrowing creature - and one half-male-half-female - is new species in Thailand

As a scientist, discovering and describing a new species is rare. Some researchers may go their entire careers without such a discovery, while others dedicate their work to the taxonomic frontier. For ...
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Yellow river creature with ‘flattened’ head found in China. It’s a new species

Scientists found a yellow creature with a “flattened” head a in river of China and discovered a “cryptic” new species, a study said. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto In a stream of southern China, a ...
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Yellow six-eyed creature found under stones in Turkey forest. It’s a new species

Scientists found a yellow creature with six eyes under a stone in a forest of Turkey and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Halil Yaylı In an “artificial forest” of southwestern Turkey ...