A 4-year-old girl in India noticed a “translucent” creature in a water tank and helped scientists discover a new species, a ...

From the mines of Papua New Guinea to the water tanks of India, here are where researchers are finding new species.

They took a closer look at the animals and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Pangio juhuae, or Juhu’s pigmy eel-loach. Juhu’s pigmy eel-loaches have “thin, slender ...