{"id":202570,"date":"2024-12-27T12:42:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T18:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/photos-top-new-species-from-2024"},"modified":"2024-12-27T12:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T18:42:43","slug":"photos-top-new-species-from-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/photos-top-new-species-from-2024","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Top new species from 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photos-top-new-species-from-2024.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A giant anaconda, a vampire hedgehog, a dwarf squirrel, and a tiger cat were among the new species named by science in 2024. Found from the depths of the Pacific Ocean to the mountaintops of Southeast Asia, each new species shows us that even our well-known world contains unexplored chambers of life.<\/p>\n<p>This year, in Peru\u2019s Alto Mayo Landscape alone, scientists uncovered 27 new-to-science species, including four new mammals, during a two month expedition. Meanwhile, the Greater Mekong region yielded <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2024\/12\/greater-mekong-serves-up-234-new-species-in-a-year-from-fanged-hedgehog-to-diva-viper\/\">234 new species<\/a>, and scientists from the California Academy of Sciences <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calacademy.org\/press\/releases\/california-academy-of-sciences-describes-138-new-species-in-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\">described 138 new species<\/a> globally. The ocean depths continued to surprise, with more than <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2024\/10\/in-the-pacific-depths-an-underwater-mountain-hosts-a-bonanza-of-new-species\/\">100 potentially new species<\/a> found on an unexplored underwater mountain off Chile\u2019s coast. Two new <a href=\"https:\/\/india.mongabay.com\/2024\/02\/two-new-mammal-species-identified-in-kaziranga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\">mammal species<\/a> were found in India this year, including the world\u2019s smallest otter.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.1230318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\"> estimate<\/a> only a small fraction of Earth\u2019s species have been documented, perhaps 20% at best. Even among mammals, the best-known group of animals, scientists think we\u2019ve only found 80% of species. Yet most of the hidden species are likely bats, rodents, shrews, moles and hedgehogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A giant anaconda, a vampire hedgehog, a dwarf squirrel, and a tiger cat were among the new species named by science in 2024. Found from the depths of the Pacific Ocean to the mountaintops of Southeast Asia, each new species shows us that even our well-known world contains unexplored chambers of life. This year, in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}