New xanthid rock crabs and epialtid spider crabs featured in Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos
New ground is being broken in the field of crab research by Dr Jose Christopher Mendoza, Dr Lee Bee Yan, Dr Bertrand Richer de Forges and Prof Peter Ng! These […]
READ MORENew local cockroach species named after Pokémon: Nocticola pheromosa
What do you get when two entomologists, who also happen to be Pokémon fans, meet? You get Singapore’s first insect species named after a bug-type Pokémon! Mr Cristian Lucañas of […]
READ MOREA Milestone for a Nation, a Sliver of Hope for Biodiversity—the Ants of Singapore
PRESS RELEASE Located at the tip of the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia, one can hardly see the tiny island nation of Singapore on the world map. With its […]
READ MORE𝘓𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘢— From Scientific Discovery to Musical Masterpiece
It all started when Dr Wan Faridah Akmal Jusoh, Research Fellow at LKCNHM, was looking up on Luciola singapura, on the internet—Singapore’s recent addition of a new firefly species, which […]
READ MOREA Bewildering Tale of a Fish & its Doppelgängers
A new freshwater fish species, the saddle barb (Barbodes sellifer) has been recently identified in Singapore! However, unlike other discoveries where new species are often found due to its rarity, […]
READ MOREAmazing New Species of Pebble Crab with Asymmetric Reproductive Units
Scientists from LKCNHM, NUS and the University of the Ryukyus, Japan, have recently identified and described a new genus and species of xanthid crab with strongly asymmetrical reproductive structures.
READ MOREABYSS 2020: Field Notes in Isolation & an Expedition
Written by Iffah Binte Iesa (Curator of Cnidarian, Echinoderm & Microscope Slide Collections) on her experience on-board the 37-day expedition to the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the Pacific Ocean from […]
READ MORENew species of firefly discovered in Singapore
SINGAPORE, (March 08, 2021) – Researchers from the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore, have discovered a new species of firefly from the last remaining freshwater […]
READ MOREA Gem from the Mangroves of Kerala, India: New Tree-climbing Crab Species
This section first appeared in NUS Research News on 30 September 2020. A new species of tree-spider crab, Leptarma biju, has been uncovered from the mangroves in Kerala, India, by researchers from the […]
READ MORESJADES 2018: Treasures from the Deep
Of Giant Significance A new species of deep-sea giant isopod, which was named Bathynomus raksasa, has been described by researchers from NUS and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). It is the first time that the genus Bathynomus has been collected in Indonesian waters and is also one of the largest known to science. Marine
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