New Fish Discovered 2025. Emmelichthys papillatus, or the papillated redbait. California academy of sciences researchers and their international collaborators discovered 146 new animal, plant and fungi species.
Our team from flinders university, together with other colleagues from australia, canada and europe, discovered a new species of fossil coelacanth on gooniyandi country in. Researchers were peripherally aware of the fish’s existence, but discovering a new species requires scientific description based on specimens collected in their natural environment.