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• New Ayeyarwady Pit Viper Species Identified in Myanmar Following Decades of Morphological Confusion

  Published: Apr 22, 2026

  Section: Environment

  Researchers have officially classified the Ayeyarwady pit viper as a distinct species after genetic analysis resolved a long-standing debate over its varied appearance. Found in ce...

• Genetically Distinct Tokara Leaf Warbler Identified as New Species After Three Million Years of Isolation

  Published: Mar 17, 2026

  Section: Science & Tech

  A study published in PNAS Nexus has identified the Tokara Leaf Warbler as a new songbird species distinct from its look-alike, Ijima’s Leaf Warbler. Despite appearing identical, ge...

• Genomic Analysis Redefines Borneo’s Fanged Frogs and Navigates the Messy Gray Zone of Speciation

  Published: Mar 10, 2026

  Section: Research

  A large scale genomic study of Bornean fanged frogs has identified six to seven distinct species, challenging earlier estimates of eighteen cryptic lineages. By analyzing over 13,0...