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Researcher Proposes Folding Australopithecus and Paranthropus into an Expanded Genus Homo

Towle argues a clade-based reclassification would better match ancestry and reduce repeated renaming of close human relatives.

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New Ice Age Toad, Spea labreae, Described From La Brea Tar Pits

Cretaceous Skull Reveals Earliest Head‑First Burrowing Snake

Scientists Name New Colobus Monkey Species From Congo Forest

Sea Slug Named for Cape Verde Goalkeeper Vozinha

Australian 'Ballista' Spider Launches Green Tree Ants With Spring-Loaded Silk Trap

New Walking Shark Species Identified Off Papua New Guinea

Scientists Describe New Cascade Frog Amolops Kamal From Nagaland

Scientists Name Labrujasuchus expectatus, a Two‑Legged, Beaked Croc Relative from Ghost Ranch

Scientists Name New Tiny Blue Octopus From the Galápagos

Researchers Describe Tiny 'Sesame' Sea Slug From Northern Taiwan

New Worm-Eating Snake Trachischium lalremsangai Described From Indo–Burma Hotspot

Shaggy 'Snuffleupagus' Ghost Pipefish Formally Described as New Species

Deep-Sea ‘Golden Orb’ Identified as Cuticle From Relicanthus daphneae

New Venomous Pitviper Identified in China’s Giant Panda National Park

Scientists Name New Tarantula Genus With Record-Long Male Palps

Chinese Fossil Trove Pushes Complex Animal Origins Into the Ediacaran

Oldest Chelicerate Fossil Dates to 500 Million Years Ago

CSIRO Voyage Confirms 117 New Deep-Sea Species in the Coral Sea

Rare Amazon Butterfly Officially Named After Borussia Dortmund