Did you know our scientists name lots of new species every single year? From crabs to centipedes and bats to bees, 2024 has been another incredible year for our scientists involved in describing new creatures! 🐸 🐝
Join Josh Davis, as we spotlight three sensational species; from the sky, from the sea and from our planet’s history. We begin our journey with a moth found in South Wales, originally from South America, and end it with a pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic. Discover a myriad of other amphibians, fish, fossils and insects along the way - some you might have heard of and others not!
Understanding Earth’s biodiversity gives us the skills to better protect the planet, who knows what we could describe next year? We’ll just have to wait to find out...
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0.00 Meet Josh Davis
0.44 Clearwing moth with Mark Sterling
3.52 What other invertebrates have been described this year?
4.29 Vegetarian piranha with Rupert Collins
6.56 New vertebrate species described this year
7.32 Pterosaur with Paul Barrett
10.07 What new fossils have been described?