A photo shows the blotchy brown coloring of a Nkam freshwater crab. Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. →Pregnant deep-sea ...

The first new species was named Geosesarma riani, or Rian’s vampire crab, after Dietra. It has a “squarish” body reaching ...

It has a “squarish” body reaching less than an inch across, red-brown legs and ... the second new species named Geosesarma nigripes, or the black-legged vampire crab, after its coloring ...

Horseshoe crabs are brown, body-armored arthropods with 10 eyes and a long ... Most notably, the rufa red knot, a shorebird species that feeds on horseshoe crab eggs during its 19,000-mile migration ...