A cute fuzzy beetle, a sea squirt that looks like a cross between a panda and a zebra, and a piranha-like fish that's vegetarian: These are just a few of the new species formally identified in 2024.
From a huge baby penguin to a pet octopus who laid 50 eggs and a whale that might have been a Russian spy, here is a look at some of the most famous animals of 2024.
Vitrumanthus flosculus, with “flosculus” meaning “small flower” or “floweret” in Latin, was discovered on underwater mountain ranges called seamounts, south of Japan’s coast. Seamounts, as the name ...