A spiny seahorse that scientists long treated as a single widespread species has turned out to be three, including one new to science in the Indian Ocean, which means the conservation status of the original species will need another look.
Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies
Two blind fishes living in village wells in Assam have been described as new to science, offering a look at a groundwater world that pollution and over-pumping could erase before anyone has catalogued it.