Japanese researchers are helping develop ways of farming local marine species in Thailand, where invasive animals are ...
Xystodesmus fasciatus, with up to 19 segments, was discovered in a Japanese cedar forest on the Satsuma peninsula and is named for its “vividly banded” body made up of alternating “pale-greyish” and ...
The species were discovered across the Ryuku Archipelago in southwestern Japan, researchers said. Photo by S. Tsuchiya via Unsplash Scattered across a chain of subtropical islands in southwestern ...
Scattered across a chain of subtropical islands in southwestern Japan, buried under rocks, or deep within the region’s humid soil, researchers discovered seven new species with segmented bodies ...