New Species

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Just a fraction of the species on our planet are known to science, but more are described and published every day. This podcast talks to the authors of these new species to get the behind-the-scenes stories of how new species are found and named, as well as why these discoveries should matter to everyone, not just scientists. Join us on our journey to better understand the wonderful biodiversity of our planet!Be sure to follow New Species on Twitter (@PodcastSpecies), and support the podcast at https://www.patreon.com/NewSpeciesPod

Recent Episodes
  • A New Toxungenous Scorpion with Léo Laborieux
    May 27, 2025 – 00:33:38
  • A New Begonia with Dipankar Borah
    May 13, 2025 – 00:30:55
  • A New Bee Fly with Lisa Rollinson and Allan Cabrero
    Apr 30, 2025 – 00:46:06
  • Two New Damselflies with Shantanu Joshi
    Apr 29, 2025 – 00:31:50
  • A New Astigmatid Mite with Hemen Sendi
    Apr 1, 2025 – 00:24:19
  • A New Woolly Devil with Isaac Lichter Marck
    Mar 18, 2025 – 00:46:53
  • Science Communication: Hard Conversations with Ethan Tapper
    Dec 24, 2024 – 00:35:39
  • BONUS: Bats! (1999) with Amanda Grunwald
    Dec 10, 2024 – 00:35:30
  • A New Malagasy Spider with Matjaž Gregorič
    Dec 10, 2024 – 00:20:56
  • Two New Cave-Dwelling Snails with Rodrigo Salvador
    Nov 26, 2024 – 00:27:09
  • A New Schizomid with Sean Birk Bek Craig
    Nov 12, 2024 – 00:45:04
  • Two New Pseudoscorpions with Danniella Sherwood
    Aug 28, 2024 – 00:48:20
  • A New Polychaete Worm with Chloé, Marcos, and Juan
    Jul 31, 2024 – 00:40:26
  • A New Gall Wasp with Louis Nastasi
    Jul 23, 2024 – 00:47:08
  • 10 New Staphylinid Beetles with Adam Haberski
    Jun 24, 2024 – 00:29:52
  • Basics 3: Description with Marc Milne
    Jun 4, 2024 – 00:49:14
  • Basics 2: Curation with Ashleigh Whiffin
    May 14, 2024 – 00:49:57
  • Basics 1: Collecting with Evan Waite
    May 7, 2024 – 00:46:11
  • Three New Red Devil Spiders with Adrià Bellvert and Miquel Arnedo
    Apr 30, 2024 – 00:48:02
  • Five New Skinks with Ishan Agarwal
    Apr 2, 2024 – 00:28:35
  • Tautonyms and Etymology with Mike Stephan
    Mar 19, 2024 – 00:49:52
  • A New Snakeworm Gnat with Thalles Pereira
    Mar 5, 2024 – 00:33:17
  • Community Survey and Updates
    Feb 23, 2024 – 00:03:34
  • Five New Millipedes with Henrik Enghoff
    Feb 13, 2024 – 00:32:41
  • A New Scorpion with Prakrit Jain
    Jan 30, 2024 – 00:28:29
  • A New Iris with John Manning
    Dec 26, 2023 – 00:40:34
  • A Genus and Five New Species of Pseudoscorpions with Catalina Romero-Ortiz
    Dec 13, 2023 – 00:40:03
  • A New Scorpion with Javier Blasco-Aróstegui
    Nov 28, 2023 – 00:29:58
  • A New Gecko with Javier Lobon-Rovira
    Oct 17, 2023 – 00:24:30
  • Three New Wolf Spiders with Danni Sherwood
    Oct 3, 2023 – 00:48:46
  • Collections Data with Makenzie Mabry
    Sep 19, 2023 – 00:31:44
  • Seven New Leaf Insects with Royce Cumming
    Sep 5, 2023 – 00:29:47
  • Five New Kleptoparasitic Spiders with Cláudia Xavier
    Aug 22, 2023 – 00:24:25
  • Eleven New Starfish with Chris Mah
    Aug 8, 2023 – 00:33:43
  • A New Millipede with Paul Marek and Cedric Lee
    Jul 11, 2023 – 00:28:20
  • Wonderful Weevils with Bob Anderson
    Jun 27, 2023 – 00:48:52
  • Seven New Grasshoppers with JoVonn Hill
    Jun 13, 2023 – 00:40:27
  • Three New Argyresthia Moths with Jacob Gorneau
    May 30, 2023 – 00:37:18
  • What’s in a Spider Name with Stefano Mammola
    May 23, 2023 – 00:35:57
  • A New Bat with Amanda Grunwald
    May 18, 2023 – 00:32:38
  • Seven New Sea Slugs with Ángel Valdéz
    May 2, 2023 – 00:25:02
  • Una Araña Trampilla Nueva con Cristian Pertegal
    Apr 27, 2023 – 00:19:09
  • A New Horseshoe Bat with Michael Curran
    Apr 18, 2023 – 00:33:44
  • A New Trapdoor Spider with Cristian Pertegal
    Apr 4, 2023 – 00:21:53
  • A New Beech Tree with Wei Harn
    Mar 21, 2023 – 00:25:07
  • A New Carpenter Bee with Dibyajyoti Ghosh
    Mar 7, 2023 – 00:22:43
  • Ten New Species of Cave Spiders with Marshal Hedin
    Feb 21, 2023 – 00:28:32
  • Three New Species of Caecilians with Juan Fernández
    Feb 7, 2023 – 00:29:08
  • A New Species of Afrotropical Ant with Kiko Gómez
    Jan 24, 2023 – 00:28:05
  • A New Species of Mud Dragon with Maria Herranz
    Jan 10, 2023 – 00:22:24
Recent Reviews
  • Endless_Forms
    Please invest in some better mics and make the show less scripted
    As a taxonomist and phylogeneticist, I want to love this show. But after so many episodes I would’ve thought that the hosts would’ve invested in some better recording equipment. The hosts always have a weird echo, and the guests (probably recording from just a zoom recording with their internal computer mic) sound so muffled it’s almost impossible to understand them. It’s so bad sometimes I end up shutting off the episode because I can’t understand a single thing that’s being said. Not only that, but while some of the conversations are conversational, others feel like I’m listening to a rehearsed research talk at lunch seminar … which …is dry and often boring. If you want this podcast to grow and to be listened to by a wider audience, I think you really need to: 1. Get better equipment, 2. learn to edit better (there are plenty of podcast editing/sound design classes on linked in and YouTube), and, 3. maybe take notes from other popular science podcasts. 4. loosen up. Stop reading from a script.
  • Smurfs village is really awesm
    Awesome
    I love learning about new topics that I’m not initially familiar with and this podcast keeps it extremely interesting!
  • Pregood
    If you love Science Friday, you should subscribe
    This show is awesome, I was not disappointed. They are ready to go, sound is great, host and guests are fantastic
  • sniperlou
    A must podcast for the biologist in all of us
    This podcast has a wonderful flow and approach to species delineation. The host is well versed and knows how to keep the listener engaged. Natures role in our everyday life is extremely important, and this podcast focuses on why finding new species in the wild has vast implications for us all.
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