ranging from the enormous American lobster to the diminutive squat lobster. However, some species like the squat "lobster" are not true lobsters. While people apply the term to many crustaceans ...

Researchers have found at least 866 new marine species as part of a global mission to protect and accelerate the discovery of sea life called Ocean Census. The programme, launched in ...

Photo from ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute via Dong, Seid, Li and Rouse (2025) Off the coast of Costa Rica, scientists aboard a research vessel discovered a new species of squat lobster named ...

Scientists have identified 866 new species as part of the Ocean Census, a global mission to protect and accelerate the discovery of marine life. The creatures include everything from a squat lobster ...

Researchers took a closer look at it, tested its DNA and eventually realized they’d discovered a new species: Typhlonida cocoensis, or the Cocos Island squat lobster. A Typhlonida cocoensis ...

Over 800 new species have been discovered in the sea after a big creature-finding mission. The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census was launched in 2023, as the world's largest effort to speed up ...